HB1001TAX EXEMPTION FOR NEW PERSONAL PROPERTY

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Prepared by: Tim Rushenberg
Report created on January 17, 2014
HB1001 TAX EXEMPTION FOR NEW PERSONAL PROPERTY. (TURNER P) Provides that a
county income tax council may adopt an ordinance to exempt from property taxation
any new business personal property (other than utility personal property) that is
located in the county.
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - House Ways and Means, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 3:30 PM, Rm. 404
Recent Status: 1/13/2014 - Referred to House Ways and Means
1/13/2014 - First Reading
State Bill Page: HB1001
HB1002 MAJOR MOVES 2020 TRUST FUND. (BROWN T) Authorizes the budget agency to
transfer before July 1, 2015, any balance in the major moves 2020 trust fund to the
state highway fund.
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:00 AM, Rm. 404
HB1003 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (BRAUN S) Provides for grants to eligible school
corporations and charter schools to support partnerships with businesses for training
students. Provides that an economic development for a growing economy (EDGE) tax
credit may be awarded to a business that employs students who have participated in a
course of study that includes a cooperative arrangement between the business and an
educational institution for the training of students in high wage, high demand jobs
that require industry certifications. Renames the Indiana workforce intelligence system
the Indiana network of knowledge (INK). Repeals provisions that assign to the Indiana
career council responsibility for the INK, and ...
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to House Commerce, Small Business and
Economic Development
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - First Reading
1/13/2014 - Authored By Steven Braun
HB1004 EARLY EDUCATION VOUCHERS (BEHNING R) Makes changes to the qualification
requirements of an eligible child for purposes of administering the early education
matching grant program. Establishes the early education scholarship pilot program
(program) to provide supplemental funding for eligible children receiving eligible
services from certain early education providers. Provides that, after June 30, 2015, an
eligible child may receive a scholarship through the program. Provides that a child or a
sibling of a child who receives an early education scholarship and meets certain other
criteria is eligible for the choice scholarship program. Makes technical corrections and
conforming amendments.
Current Status: 1/16/2014 - Third reading Passed, (Y:87 N:9)
Recent Status: 1/16/2014 - House Bills on Third Reading
1/15/2014 - House Bills on Third Reading
Staff Assigned: Pat Kiely
HB1005 GOVERNMENT REDUCTION (MCMILLIN J) Requires an administrative agency to
submit certain information to the office of management and budget (OMB) and receive
a certain determination from the director of OMB before pursuing a rulemaking action.
Removes or repeals certain motor vehicles provisions, including references to street
cars, operation of certain buses, and suspension of driving privileges of minors.
Removes from the duties of the division of planning and assessment of the
department of homeland security the dispersal of homeland security funds in Indiana.
Removes funds used by the division of family resources in relation to programs for
individuals with developmental disabilities from the list ...
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to House Select Committee on
Government Reduction
1/14/2014 - Authored By Jud McMillin
HB1007 ELECTIONS (ARNOLD L) Volunteer firefighters holding elected office. Deletes
provisions that prohibit volunteer firefighters from assuming or holding certain elected
offices.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Government and Regulatory
Reform
1/7/2014 - Authored By Arnold, Lloyd
Staff Assigned: Ed Roberts
HB1009 SEARCH WARRANTS AND PRIVACY (KOCH E) Search warrants and privacy.
Prohibits the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and tracking devices to conduct
warrantless searches, with certain exceptions. Prohibits the placement of cameras or
electronic surveillance equipment on private property to conduct warrantless searches,
with certain exceptions. Establishes additional requirements that must be met in order
for a search warrant authorizing the use of a tracking device to be issued. Provides
that, except for a law enforcement officer acting under a warrant and certain other
persons under certain circumstances, a person who uses a tracking device without the
consent of the person who is the object of the use commits a Class A misdemeanor.
Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally places a camera or electronic
surveillance equipment that records images or data of any kind while unattended on
the private property of another person without the written consent of the owner or
tenant of the private property commits a Class A misdemeanor. Requires a search
warrant to conduct a search of an electronic device or compel disclosure of an
electronic communication service or electronic user data. Requires a search warrant to
obtain geolocation information. Requires a governmental entity to issue notice to a
user if the user's electronic device or geolocation information was obtained in a
search. Requires a governmental entity to pay for electronic user data. Requires the
clerk of a court that issues or denies a warrant to report each warrant to the judicial
center. Requires the judicial center to submit to the legislative council a report
concerning search warrants issued for electronic devices. Requires the judicial center
to post the report on its Internet web site. Provides immunity from civil and criminal
liability for certain entities that provide information pursuant to certain warrants.
Makes a technical correction.
Current Status: 1/8/2014 - House Courts and Criminal Code, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location:
Recent Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Courts and Criminal Code
HB1011 SMALL SCHOOL GRANTS (FRYE R) Small school grants. Reestablishes a small
school grant for school corporations having a current ADM of less than 2,400 and a
complexity index of at least 0.1. Appropriates from the state general fund an amount
sufficient to make the grants for the 2014-2015 state fiscal year.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Ways and Means
1/7/2014 - Authored By Frye, Randy
HB1012 SCHOOL SAFETY LEVY & PROTECTION OFFICERS (MORRISON A) School safety
levy and school protection officers. Specifies that a school corporation may impose a
school safety improvement property tax levy if a majority of the individuals in the
school district who vote in a referendum on the tax levy approve the imposition of the
tax levy. Provides that if a referendum is approved and a school corporation imposes a
school safety improvement property tax levy, the tax revenue must be deposited in a
school safety improvement fund and may be used by the school corporation only to
pay the costs of: (1) employing a school resource officer or school protection officer,
or entering into a contract to employ a school resource officer or school protection
officer; (2) conducting a threat assessment of the buildings in the school corporation;
(3) purchasing or leasing capital improvements, equipment, or technology that is used
to prevent unauthorized access to school property or to expedite notification of first
responders; (4) developing and implementing a school safety plan; or (5) paying the
school corporation's share of any matching grants awarded from the Indiana safe
schools fund or from the Indiana secured school fund. Specifies the powers, duties,
and responsibilities of a school protection officer regarding school safety.
HB1018 POSSESION OF FIREARMS ON STATE PROPERTY (LUCAS J) Possession of
firearms on state property. Prohibits a state agency, including a state supported
college or university, from regulating the possession or transportation of firearms,
ammunition, or firearm accessories: (1) on land that is; or (2) in buildings and other
structures that are; owned or leased by the state. Provides for certain exceptions.
Voids, as of July 1, 2014, any rules or policies enacted or undertaken by a state
agency before, on, or after June 30, 2014, concerning possession or transportation of
firearms, ammunition, or firearm accessories on land or in structures owned or leased
by the state. Allows a person to bring an action against a state agency if the person is
adversely affected by a rule, a measure, an enactment, or a policy of the state agency
that violates this law.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Public Policy
1/7/2014 - Authored By Lucas, Jim
HB1020 STUDY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES (KOCH E) Study of
economic development incentives. Requires the commission on state tax and financing
policy to review, analyze, and evaluate state and local tax incentives that are provided
to encourage economic development or to alter, reward, or subsidize a particular
action or behavior by a tax incentive recipient. Requires the use of a five year review
schedule. Requires the commission to publish a report before November 1 each year
on tax incentives reviewed that year.
Current Status: 1/21/2014 - House Bills on Second Reading
Recent Status: 1/16/2014 - Committee Report, 1st House amend do pass,
adopted
1/15/2014 - House Commerce, Small Business and Economic
Development, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location:
3:30 PM, 156-D
Staff Assigned: Tim Rushenberg
HB1021 PROTECTED TAXES & SCHOOL CORPORATIONS (ERRINGTON S) Protected taxes
and school corporations. Specifies that a school corporation may determine the
allocation among its funds of property tax reductions resulting from the granting of
property tax circuit breaker credits.
1/7/2014 - Authored By Errington, Sue
HB1022 SUNDAY SALES OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES FOR CARRYOUT (EBERHART
S) Sunday sales of alcoholic beverages for carryout. Provides that a holder of an
alcoholic beverage permit who is authorized by law to sell alcoholic beverages for
carryout may sell alcoholic beverages for carryout on Sunday.
1/7/2014 - Authored By Eberhart, Sean
HB1024 PROTECTION OF PRIVATE REAL PROPERTY (NEESE T) Protection of private real
property rights. Provides that if an action of a state or local governmental entity taken
after June 30, 2014, to enforce or otherwise apply a law or other regulation: (1)
creates an inordinate burden on, restriction on, or limitation of real property rights on
an existing use of private real property or a vested right to a specific use of private
real property; and (2) the action does not constitute a taking of private real property
under the Constitution of the State of Indiana or the Constitution of the United States;
the property owner is entitled to relief, including compensation for the actual loss to
the fair market value of the real property, by bringing an action in the circuit court
that has jurisdiction in the county in which the real property is located. Establishes the
procedures the private real property owner must follow to: (1) bring and maintain the
action; and (2) receive compensation.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Judiciary
1/7/2014 - Authored By Neese, Tim
HB1027 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION (DEVON D) Property tax exemptions. Provides that a
nonprofit youth baseball and softball association may submit an exemption application
before July 1, 2014, for property tax exemptions for an eligible property with respect
to one or more of the 2008, 2009, and 2010 assessment dates. Provides that the
association is entitled to a property tax exemption if the county assessor finds that the
parcel would have qualified for an exemption if an exemption application had been
filed in a timely manner. Provides that an eligible taxpayer is entitled to a refund for
any back taxes, penalties, and interest paid with respect to the eligible property.
Allows the county auditor to determine that a refund must be paid in two annual
installments.
HB1028 DROPOUT RECOVERY SCHOOLS (DEVON D) Dropout recovery schools. Provides
that a provision that prohibits the issuance of a charter to a charter school that serves
students at least 20 years of age who have not received a high school diploma expires
July 1, 2015. Provides that, after June 30, 2015, a charter school that is designated as
a recovery school or serves students who have dropped out of high school before
receiving a diploma may be authorized by any authorizer. Provides that a provision
that limits funding of certain dropout recovery schools to $6,600 per student expires
July 1, 2015. Provides that a requirement for the state board of education to develop
alternative benchmarks, performance indicators, and accountability standards to be
used in the assessment of schools that focus exclusively on providing an academic
program for students with developmental, intellectual, or behavioral challenges does
not apply to a recovery charter school or a charter school that serves dropout
students. Provides that a recovery charter school or a charter school that serves
dropout students is subject to the alternative accountability system developed by the
state board of education.
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - Committee Report, 1st House amend do pass,
adopted
Recent Status: 1/13/2014 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Time & Location: 8:30 AM, 156-C
1/7/2014 - Referred to House Education
HB1029 OFF DUTY USE TOBACCO BY PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES (CULVER W) Off duty
use of tobacco by prospective employees. Removes the prohibition against an
employer requiring, as a condition of employment, that a prospective employee refrain
from using tobacco products outside the course of the prospective employee's
employment. Removes the civil cause of action that a prospective employee could
have brought against an employer for requiring the prospective employee, as a
condition of employment, to refrain from using tobacco products outside the course of
the prospective employee's employment.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Employment, Labor and Pensions
1/7/2014 - Authored By Culver, Wes
HB1032 REDISTRICTING COMMISSION (TORR J) Redistricting commission. Establishes a
redistricting commission (commission) to create, hold hearings on, take public
comment about, and recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and
congressional districts. Requires the legislative services agency (agency) to provide
staff and administrative services to the commission. Establishes standards to govern
the commission and the agency in the creation of redistricting plans. Provides that if
the Constitution of the State of Indiana does not require the general assembly to
establish legislative districts, the commission's recommendations for legislative and
congressional districts become the plans that define those districts. Provides that, if
the Constitution so requires, the general assembly must meet and enact redistricting
plans before October 1 of a redistricting year. Authorizes the general assembly to
convene in a session to act on redistricting bills at times other than the times the
general assembly is currently authorized to meet. Repeals the current law establishing
a redistricting commission for congressional redistricting. Appropriates from the state
general fund the amounts necessary to pay the expenses of implementing the statute.
Current Status: 1/21/2014 - House Bills on Third Reading
Recent Status: 1/16/2014 - House Bills on Third Reading
1/15/2014 - House Bills on Third Reading
HB1033 PUBLICATION OF NOTICE (TORR J) Publication of notice. Allows publication of
notice in a qualified publication as an alternative to publication of notice in a
newspaper for purposes of notices that are required to be published under IC 5-3-1.
Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally possesses a police radio and
transmits over a frequency assigned for police emergency purposes is not unlawful
use of a police radio if the person is employed by a qualified publication under certain
circumstances.
Current Status: 1/21/2014 - House Government and Regulatory Reform, (Bill
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 10:30 AM, 156-A
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - House Government and Regulatory Reform, (Bill
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 10:30 AM, Rm.
156-A
1/7/2014 - Referred to House Government and Regulatory
Reform
HB1034 PUBLIC MASS TRANSPORTATION (TORR J) Public mass transportation. Specifies
that a county or city council (other than the city-county council of Marion County) may
elect by ordinance to provide revenue to a public transportation corporation from the
city's or the county's distributive share of county adjusted gross income taxes, county
option income taxes, or county economic development income taxes. Authorizes the
establishment of a metropolitan transit district by specified eligible counties through
local public questions and provides for an appointed board to govern the metropolitan
transit district. Provides that certain outlying townships of eligible counties may each
separately determine whether to be included in the metropolitan transit districtthrough
local public questions in the outlying townships. Authorizes the metropolitan transit
district to: (1) construct or acquire any public transportation facility; (2) provide public
transportation service by operating public transportation facilities; and (3) issue bonds
and otherwise incur indebtedness. Authorizes the Indiana finance authority to issue
bonds and use the proceeds to acquire any obligations issued by a metropolitan transit
district. Provides that in a county that has approved the local public question, an
additional county economic development income tax (CEDIT) rate of not more than
0.3% may be imposed in that part of the county included in the metropolitan transit
district to pay the county's contribution to the funding of the metropolitan transit
district. Specifies that the CEDIT rate may not exceed the recommended tax.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Roads and Transportation
1/7/2014 - Authored By Torr, Jerry
HB1035 REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (BRAUN S) Regional economic
development. Requires the Indiana economic development corporation to conduct an
assessment of Indiana's most productive regional metropolitan areas. Provides that
the assessment must analyze the economic potential of each of Indiana's regional
cities and provide a report on the needs of each regional city along with
recommendations on initiatives and improvements in each regional city that will lead
to regional economic growth.
1/7/2014 - Authored By Braun, Steve
HB1038 DEDUCTION FOR DOMESTIC PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES (LEONARD
D) Deduction for domestic production activities. Eliminates the add back of the federal
deduction for domestic production activities under Section 199 of the Internal Revenue
Code in the definition of "adjusted gross income" for purposes of the Indiana adjusted
gross income tax and the financial institutions tax.
1/7/2014 - Authored By Leonard, Daniel
HB1039 INDIANA GROWN INITIATIVE (LEHMAN M) Indiana grown initiative. Establishes
the Indiana grown initiative to market and promote Indiana produced agricultural
products. Establishes a commission appointed by the secretary of agriculture and rural
development. Creates the Indiana grown initiative fund. Makes an appropriation.
Current Status: 1/16/2014 - House Agriculture and Rural Development, (Bill
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 8:30 AM, Rm. 156A
Recent Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Agriculture and Rural
Development
HB1040 PROPRIETARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (CULVER W) Proprietary
educational institutions. Provides that a postsecondary proprietary educational
institution that: (1) is domiciled and has its principal offices and the majority of its
operations in Indiana; (2) provides an organized two year or longer program of
collegiate level classes that are directly creditable toward a baccalaureate degree; and
(3) is authorized to conduct business by the board for proprietary education and is
accredited or conditionally accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by
the United States Department of Education; is an approved postsecondary educational
institution for purposes of higher education awards. Makes corresponding changes to
related sections.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Education
HB1044 REPORT CONCERNING STATE EXPENDITURES (SHACKLEFORD R) Report
concerning state expenditures. Requires the department of administration to provide
information annually to the governor, the general assembly, and the public concerning
the participation of minority and women's business enterprises in contracts and
subcontracts of each state agency for the prior state fiscal year.
Reform
1/7/2014 - Authored By Shackleford, Robin
HB1045 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY (KIRCHHOFER C) Occupational therapy. Revises the
definition of "practice of occupational therapy". Adds a definition of "occupational
therapy services".
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - House Public Health, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Time & Location: 10:30 AM, 156-D
Recent Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Public Health
HB1046 PROPERTY TAX DEDUCTION FOR MORTISE AND TENON BARNS (CHERRY
R) Property tax deduction for mortise and tenon barns. Permits a person to receive a
100% property tax deduction against the assessed value of certain mortise and tenon
barns.
1/7/2014 - Authored By Cherry, Robert
HB1048 POSSESSION OF FIREARMS (LUCAS J) Possession of firearms. Makes knowingly or
intentionally possessing a firearm: (1) in or on school property; (2) in or on property
that is not school property and is being used by a school for a school function; or (3)
on a school bus; a Class A misdemeanor instead of a Level 6 felony. Provides that for
purposes of the law concerning possession of firearms on school property: (1) school
property means a building or other structure owned or rented by a school that is being
used exclusively by the school for a school function and does not include grounds
adjacent to and ownedor rented in common with the building or other structure; (2)
property that is not school property that is being used for a school function if the
property is being used exclusively by a school for a school function, the property is not
accessible to the general public during the school function, and a notice is
conspicuously posted at each entrance to the property that states that the property is
being used by a school for a school function; and (3) the law does not apply to a
person who may legally possess a firearm and possesses a firearm that is locked in the
trunk of the person's motor vehicle, kept in the glove compartment of the person's
locked motor vehicle, or stored out of plain sight in the person's locked motor vehicle.
Removes a provision from the law concerning firearms in locked vehicles that allows a
person to adopt a policy or rule that prohibits an employee of the person from
possessing a firearm or ammunition in or on school property, in or on property that is
being used by a school for a school function, or on a school bus in violation of: (1)
student discipline laws concerning possession of firearms; or (2) the law concerning
possession of firearms on school property and school buses. Specifies that the law
concerning firearms in locked vehicles does not prohibit an employer from prohibiting
an employee from possessing a firearm or ammunition at the employer's residence.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - House Public Policy, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Time & Location: 8:30 AM, Rm. 156-B
Recent Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Public Policy
HB1052 DEVELOPMENT AROUND MILITARY BASE (MESSMER M) Development around
military base. Expands, for purposes of the limitations on planning and zoning that
affect the Crane military base, the definition of "military base" to include the Glendora
Lake Test Facility in Sullivan County at which the Crane military base conducts
affiliated operations.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Local Government
1/7/2014 - Authored By Messmer, Mark
HB1053 LEVEE ASSOCIATIONS (MESSMER M) Levee associations. Specifies that certain
levee districts or associations that were created under a statute that was repealed and
were allowed to continue after the statute was repealed are subject to the laws
concerning levee associations.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to House Natural Resources
Staff Assigned: Patrick Bennett
HB1054 SALES TAX EXEMPTION FOR DATA WAREHOUSE EQUIPMENT (MESSMER
M) Sales tax exemption for data warehouse equipment. Provides a state sales tax
exemption for the sale or lease of certain enterprise information technology
equipment. Requires that the investment in the equipment must be at least
$100,000,000. Specifies that the investment must be in a high technology district area
established by a municipality or county fiscal body. Requires that the application for
exemption must be reviewed by the Indiana economic development corporation.
Requires that the equipment purchase must be made after June 30, 2014, and before
July 1, 2018.
HB1055 HOOSIER BUSINESS INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT (MESSMER M) Hoosier business
investment tax credit. Permits the Indiana economic development corporation to grant
a Hoosier business investment income tax credit that is entirely or partly refundable to
the taxpayer or to a pass through entity. Specifies that the corporation's discretion to
grant a refundable credit applies to credit awards approved and investments made on
or after July 1, 2015.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - First Reading
HB1058 ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF INSURANCE NOTICES AND DOCUMENTS
(MAYFIELD P) Electronic delivery of insurance notices and documents. Provides for the
electronic delivery of insurance notices and documents instead of other modes of
delivery otherwise required for such notices and documents. Requires a recipient's
consent to electronic delivery and a method to withdraw consent.
Recent Status: 1/16/2014 - Committee Report, 1st House do pass, adopted
1/15/2014 - House Insurance, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Staff Assigned: Jeff Goodwin
HB1061 DENTAL HYGIENE PRACTICE (FRIZZELL D) Dental hygiene practice. Allows a
dental hygienist to practice under prescriptive supervision in: (1) a dental office if the
patient has a current medical history on file and has received a comprehensive oral
examination within the previous year; or (2) a setting where a prescription for care
has been issued by the dentist within the previous 90 days. (Current law allows a
dental hygienist to practice under prescriptive supervision if a dentist has examined
the patient and has prescribed the patient care within the previous 45 days.) Removes
certain provisions that allow a dental hygienist to practice in specific settings. Allows a
dentalhygienist to administer nitrous oxide under the direct supervision of a licensed
dentist.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - House Public Health, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Time & Location: 1:30 PM, Rm. House Chamber
Recent Status: 1/13/2014 - House Public Health, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Time & Location: 10:30 AM, 156-D
HB1062 DEBT SERVICE FUNDS (HUSTON T) Provides that the maximum amount allowed for
an operating balance in the debt service fund is the sum of: (1) 50% of the budget
estimate for the debt service on debt incurred before January 1, 2009, or on debt
incurred after December 31, 2008, but before July 1, 2014, if the first bond payment
of the year is due before January 11; plus (2) 25% of the amount budgeted for the
ensuing year for other debt service. Provides that taxes levied under the allowance
may not be construed as an increase in a political subdivision's property tax levy to
make up for a reduction in property tax collections under the circuit breaker law.
HB1063 CHARTER SCHOOL COMPACTS (HUSTON T) Provides that a charter school and a
school corporation may enter into a compact under which the: (1) school corporation
or charter school agrees to provide goods, facilities, services, or other consideration to
the other party to the compact; and (2) charter school authorizes the school
corporation to include the charter school's performance assessment results when
calculating the school corporation's performance assessment.
Recent Status: 1/16/2014 - Second reading amended, ordered engrossed
1/16/2014 - House Bills on Second Reading
HB1064 STUDY OF CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS (MCNAMARA
W) Requires the Indiana career council to complete not later than November 1, 2014,
a return on investment and utilization study of career and technical education
programs in Indiana. Makes technical corrections.
Current Status: 1/16/2014 - House Education, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Recent Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to House Education
Staff Assigned: Brian Burton
HB1065 ASSESSMENT OF REAL PROPERTY (CULVER W) Provides a limit on the amount by
which the assessed value of real property may be increased for the four assessment
dates after the assessed value of the real property is determined in a property tax
appeal, in the case of appeals initiated after the effective date of the statute. In the
case of a property tax appeal that is pending on the effective date of the statute and
that was filed within the preceding four years, the assessed value for the assessment
date in question and for each of the following three assessment dates may not be
increased by more than a specified amount. Specifies that these limits do not apply to
any part of a change in an assessment: (1) that is directly applicable to any change in
an objective factor or feature relating to the property, including an improvement or
enlargement of the property; or (2) that results from the correction of an error or
omission, including the correction of a mathematical error.
HB1066 EXTRATERRITORIAL MUNICIPAL UTILITY SERVICE (WOLKINS D) Provides that
if a contract between a municipality and the owners of property located outside the
corporate boundaries of the municipality provides for the payment of money to the
municipality in exchange for a municipal utility owned by the municipality providing
service outside the municipality's corporate boundaries, the municipality is prohibited
from using the money paid under the contract for any purpose that is not directly
related to the municipal utility's provision of utility service.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Wolkins, David
HB1068 PRICES CHARGED TO RETAILERS BY SUPPLIERS (SOLIDAY E) Provides that a
supplier commits an unconscionable act that is treated the same as a deceptive act
under the deceptive consumer sales law if the supplier refuses to sell to a retailer with
which the supplier has done business within the previous two years a good that is a
food or beverage product at the same price that the supplier sells the good to any
other retailer. Establishes exceptions. Provides that certain deceptive consumer sales
provisions do not apply to the unconscionable act. Requires a court to award to a
retailer the difference between the higher price at which the goods were sold to the
retailer and the lower price at which the goods were sold to another retailer if a court
finds a supplier has committed an unconscionable act. Requires a court to award to
the attorney general, if the attorney general files an action to enjoin the
unconscionable act, a civil penalty equal to two times the amount of the difference
between the higher price at which the goods were sold to a retailer and the lower
price at which the goods were sold to another retailer.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Soliday, Edmond
HB1069 INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY TAX CREDITS (ZIEMKE C) Authorizes a shareholder,
partner, or member of a pass through entity to claim the industrial recovery tax credit.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Ziemke, Cindy
HB1078 INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS (HAMM R) Provides that
an individual who is a volunteer firefighter is entitled to a credit of $500 against the
individual's adjusted gross income tax liability each taxable year.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Hamm, Richard
HB1079 STUDENT TRANSFERS (KARICKHOFF M) Provides that a school corporation that has
adopted a policy not to accept student transfers after June 30, 2013, is not prohibited
from enrolling a member of a household in which any other member of the household
was a transfer student who attended a school within the school corporation during the
2012-2013 school year. Provides that in the event a school corporation enrolls a
transfer student or a member of the same household of a transfer student that
attended a school corporation during the 2012-2013 school year, the school
corporation shall also allow a student or member of the same household of a student
who attended an accredited nonpublic school within the attendance area of the school
corporation during the 2012-2013 school year to enroll in a school within the school
corporation.
Recent Status: 1/16/2014 - Second reading ordered engrossed
HB1081 BAN ON SALE OR USE OF COAL TAR PAVEMENT PRODUCTS (NIEZGODSKI
D) Prohibits the: (1) sale; and (2) application to pavement; of a coal tar pavement
product (a tar formed from the distillation of bituminous coal) except as required for
purposes of research on the effects of the coal tar pavement product on the
environment.
Current Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to House Environmental Affairs
1/9/2014 - Authored By Niezgodski, David
HB1082 BACKFLOW PREVENTION AND PLUMBING (NIEZGODSKI D) Requires the
environmental rules board (board) to adopt rules: (1) requiring the periodic testing of
backflow prevention devices in premises that receive water from public water systems
and contain at least four dwelling units; (2) establishing procedures for the testing;
and (3) requiring the keeping of records. Requires the commissioner of the
department of environmental management to establish a continuing professional
education program for registered cross connection control device inspectors. Requires
inspectors to take at least two hours of continuing professional education during each
two year cycle. Provides that, to be included in the list of inspectors maintained by the
commissioner, a person must pay a fee. Establishes the cross connection control
device inspector continuing education fund, and provides for the fee proceeds to be
deposited in the fund. Requires the plumbing commission to establish a continuing
professional education program, and provides that persons holding valid plumbing
licenses must complete at least two hours of continuing professional education in a
two year period to renew their licenses. Establishes the plumbing compliance fund for
purposes of enforcement. Provides for civil penalties imposed by the plumbing
commission to be deposited in the plumbing compliance fund, and provides that, on
June 29 of every odd-numbered year, 50% of the balance in the plumbers recovery
fund shall be deposited in the plumbing compliance fund.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Niezgodski, David
HB1083 CHILD LABOR LAW (TORR J) Provides that a legal entity whose ownership is limited
to the parents of an employed child or persons standing in place of the parent of an
employed child is not subject to certain provisions of the child labor law. Provides for
civil penalties to be assessed by the department of labor (department) concerning
employment certificate violations, hazardous occupation violations, and age violations
of the child labor law. Provides that all blank forms necessary to carry out child labor
law regulation must be prepared by the department and supplied to issuing officers by
means of electronic or printed publication. Repeals language providing that funds to
pay expenses incurred by the department in printing and distributing the blank forms
are appropriated annually out of any money in the state general fund that is not
otherwise appropriated. Provides that the department may adopt rules to implement
the child labor law. Permits a child who is at least 14 years of age but less than 16
years of age to work: (1) until 9 p.m. on a night followed by a school day or until 10
p.m. on a night not followed by a school day, with parental permission on file with the
employer; (2) until 11 p.m. from June 1 through Labor Day; and (3) up to four hours
on a school day.
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - House Employment, Labor and Pensions, (Bill
Recent Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to House Employment, Labor and Pensions
HB1084 DEFERRED TUITION PILOT (PRYOR C) Requires the commission for higher
education to analyze and consider the creation of a pilot program that would replace
the current system of charging students tuition and fees for enrollment at state
educational institutions with a system that requires a student to pay into a fund a part
of the student's income that is earned after graduation.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Pryor, Cherrish
HB1086 SALES TAX EXEMPTION FOR DRAINAGE WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
(GUTWEIN D) Provides that a component of a drainage water management system
intended for use on agricultural land used for crop production is exempt from sales tax
if the person acquiring the component is engaged in the business of agriculture.
HB1087 PROHIBITION ON LABOR PEACE AGREEMENTS (GUTWEIN D) Provides that a
statute, ordinance, or regulation of the state or a political subdivision may not: (1)
impose a contract, zoning, permitting, licensing, or other condition that requires an
employer, multiemployer association, or employee to waive rights under the federal
National Labor Relations Act; and (2) require an employer or multiemployer
association to accept or otherwise agree to a provision that is a mandatory or
nonmandatory subject of collective bargaining under federal labor law. Provides for
injunctive relief.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Gutwein, Douglas
HB1091 PERSONAL LEAVE FOR EMPLOYEES (DVORAK R) Provides that certain employees
of certain employers are entitled to take: (1) 24 hours of paid leave; and (2) 16 hours
of unpaid leave; in a 12 month period.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Dvorak, Ryan
HB1093 USE OF I-LIGHT AT SCHOOLS (HUSTON T) Allows the use of I-Light (the high
speed communications network that connects state educational institutions and private
postsecondary educational institutions throughout Indiana) for the provision of
communications service to an accredited public school or nonpublic school in
furtherance of education for the direct benefit of students, faculty, or staff.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Huston, Todd
HB1094 GROUP LIFE INSURANCE BENEFICIARY (HEATON R) Allows a key employee
insured under an employer group life insurance policy to name the employer as a
beneficiary.
Current Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to House Insurance
1/9/2014 - Authored By Heaton, Bob
HB1097 IMMUNITY FOR PROVIDING VOLUNTEER HEALTH CARE (FRIZZELL D) Grants a
person licensed to provide health care services immunity from liability for an act or
omission relating to the provision of health care if the care was: (1) within the scope
of the person's license; and (2) provided voluntarily and without compensation.
Specifies that the immunity: (1) is available even if the health care services are
provided in a setting other than a medical clinic or health care facility; and (2) is not
available if the person committed gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Frizzell, David
HB1099 ANNEXATION OF NONCONTIGUOUS PROPERTY (NIEMEYER R) Allows a
municipality to annex property that is not contiguous to the municipality and is
occupied by a municipally owned or operated: (1) wastewater treatment facility; or (2)
water treatment facility.
Current Status: 1/21/2014 - House Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 1:30 PM, Rm. 156-B
Recent Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to House Local Government
HB1100 LAKE COUNTY SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT (NIEMEYER R) Provides
that the Lake County solid waste management district may not exercise the power to
construct and operate facilities for solid waste management, enter into certain
contracts concerning the management of solid waste, enter into agreements for the
leasing of certain solid waste facilities, purchase or lease real or personal property for
the management or disposal of solid waste, sell or lease certain solid waste facilities,
accept gifts, grants, loans of money, other property, or services from any source and
comply with the terms of the gift, grant, or loan, or borrow in anticipation of taxes,
unless: (1) the district has submitted a recommendation to the county executive of
Lake County concerning the exercise of the power; and (2) the county executive has
adopted an ordinance approving the recommendation and authorizing the district to
exercise the power.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Niemeyer, Rick
HB1101 NOTICE OF TAX SALES (NIEMEYER R) Provides that a county auditor may publish
an abridged tax sale notice in the appropriate newspapers that omits the descriptions
of specific properties eligible for sale if the abridged notice includes a statement that
the descriptions are available on the county's Internet web site and in printed form
from the county auditor upon request.
HB1102 EXPENSES OF PROPERTY TAX APPEALS (NIEMEYER R) Provides that a county
may adopt an ordinance establishing a county property tax appeals defense fund for
the purpose of paying expenses incurred by a county in litigating and resolving
property tax disputes. Allows a county to adopt an ordinance authorizing the retention
by the county of a percentage, not to exceed 5%, of the property taxes, penalties,
and interest for which a taxpayer is determined to be liable after a property tax appeal
is final or settled.
HB1104 ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION FUNDING MECHANISMS (SOLIDAY
E) Requires the Indiana department of transportation to contract with a third party for
a study of alternative funding mechanisms for the maintenance of Indiana's
transportation infrastructure.
adopted
1/15/2014 - House Roads and Transportation, (Bill Scheduled
for Hearing); Time & Location: 10:30 AM, Rm. 156-D
HB1109 SALES TAX ON RECREATIONAL VEHICLES (HARMAN T) Provides that the
purchase of a recreational vehicle or cargo trailer that is transported out of Indiana for
registration and use in another state or country is exempt from the state gross retail
tax regardless of whether the destination state or country provides a similar
exemption for Indiana residents.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Harman, Tim
HB1112 MILITARY INCOME TAX DEDUCTION (MACER K) Phases in an increase of the
military income tax deduction from $5,000 to $7,000. Removes the minimum age
requirement for an individual to deduct income received as retirement or survivor's
benefits for military service.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Macer, Karlee
HB1114 LEGEND DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS BY OPTOMETRISTS (DAVISSON S) Allows
optometrists who are certified by the optometry board to administer, dispense, and
prescribe certain narcotic drugs, codeine with compounds, and hydrocodone with
compounds. Repeals a law concerning drug formulary requirements. Makes
conforming changes.
Current Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to House Public Health
1/9/2014 - Authored By Davisson, Steve
HB1118 WORK SHARING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT (MACER K) Establishes a work
sharing unemployment insurance program. Requires an employer to submit a work
sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the department of workforce
development. Establishes the work sharing benefit as equal to the employee's
unemployment benefit reduced by a percentage that is equivalent to the number of
hours by which the employee's normal weekly work hours are reduced.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Macer, Karlee
HB1120 SUPPORT FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATIONAL EXPENSES (HEATON
R) Provides that a child support order or educational support order may not include
amounts for a child's educational expenses at a postsecondary educational institution
unless the party to whom the order applies has entered into an agreement to pay
amounts for the child's educational expenses at a postsecondary educational
institution. Makes provisions in an order that include amounts for educational
expenses at a postsecondary educational institution void unless the party to whom the
order applies has entered into an agreement to pay those expenses. Makes
conforming changes to remove references to educational support for postsecondary
education.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Heaton, Bob
HB1121 ADMINISTRATIVE ADJUDICATION (KOCH E) Authorizes an agency to share an
administrative law judge with another agency. Requires an agency to adopt rules
establishing a code of judicial conduct for administrative law judges. Requires that an
administrative law judge who is not the ultimate authority or a member of the ultimate
authority must be an attorney licensed to practice law in Indiana. Prohibits the
ultimate authority from communicating with certain persons, including: (1) a party; (2)
a person with an interest in the outcome; or (3) a person who presided at an earlier
stage of the proceeding; concerning a matter pending before or adjudicated by an
administrative law judge if there is a reasonable likelihood that the ultimate authority
will be called upon to review or issue a final order with respect to the matter. Specifies
when a party has standing to obtain judicial review of an agency action. Requires that
an agency's rulemaking docket must contain certain additional information.
Recent Status: 1/16/2014 - Second reading amended, ordered engrossed
HB1123 INSURANCE COVERAGE OF ABORTION (THOMPSON J) Prohibits certain insurance
policies from providing coverage for abortion except in specified circumstances.
adopted
HB1124 LOCAL INCOME TAX LAWS (THOMPSON J) Replaces the county adjusted gross
income tax, the county option income tax, and the county economic development tax
with a local income tax law. Provides for the introduction of legislation in the 2015
legislative session to make related amendments to implement the local income tax.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Thompson, Jeffrey
HB1125 PROPERTY TAX PURCHASERS (FORESTAL D) Provides that persons who have
certain unsafe buildings or delinquent property taxes anywhere in Indiana may not
purchase property at a tax sale. (Current law disqualifies persons who have certain
unsafe buildings or delinquent property taxes in a particular county from purchasing
property at a tax sale conducted by the county.)
1/9/2014 - Authored By Forestal, Dan
HB1126 WAGE PAYMENT AND WAGE ASSIGNMENT (OBER D) Provides that an employer
who fails to make timely payment of wages to an employee may be ordered by a court
to pay an award of: (1) liquidated damages for at least 10% of the unpaid wages; and
(2) a reasonable fee for the employee's attorney, if the total award is less than double
the past due wages. Provides that an employee may assign wages for: (1) the
purchase, rental, or use of uniforms or equipment necessary to fulfill the duties of
employment; (2) reimbursement for education or employee skills training; and (3) an
advance for payroll or vacation pay.
Recent Status: 1/16/2014 - House Bills on Second Reading
1/14/2014 - Committee Report, 1st House do pass, adopted
HB1129 SALES TAX REFUNDS IN DISASTER AREAS (GOODIN T) Provides that a person
who is the owner of a building that is located in a county declared a disaster area
under federal law and that is damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster occurring
after December 31, 2011, is entitled to a refund of the state sales and use tax paid on
the purchase of building materials that: (1) are used to repair the building or to
construct a new building to replace the damaged or destroyed building; and (2) are
purchased after the occurrence of the disaster by the owner of the building or by a
contractor that is under contract with the owner.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Goodin, Terry
HB1130 JUDICIAL OFFICERS AND FIREARMS (GOODIN T) Provides that certain judicial
officers: (1) may possess and use a firearm in the same locations that a law
enforcement officer who is authorized to carry a firearm may possess a firearm while
the law enforcement officer is engaged in the execution of the law enforcement
officer's official duties; and (2) may not be prohibited from possessing a firearm on
land or in buildings and other structures owned or leased by the state or any agency
of state government or a political subdivision. Specifies that a judicial officer who
possesses and uses a firearm has the same civil and criminal immunities and defenses
that a law enforcement officer has when the law enforcement officer: (1) possesses
and uses a firearm; and (2) is engaged in the execution of the law enforcement
officer's official duties.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Goodin, Terry
HB1132 INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT COSTS (FRIEND W) Provides that a public
utility that provides water or wastewater service may petition the utility regulatory
commission for an adjustment of its basic rates and charges to allow for recovery of
eligible infrastructure improvement costs. (Current law provides that only a public
utility that provides water service may apply for a distribution system improvement
charge.) Requires a public utility to annually reconcile the difference between its utility
rate improvement adjustment revenues and infrastructure improvement costs. Repeals
definitions related to distribution system improvement charges. Makes conforming
amendments.
1/15/2014 - House Utilities and Energy, (Bill Scheduled for
HB1133 REPORT OF GIFTS MADE TO LOCAL OFFICERS (VANDENBURGH R) Requires a
local elected official to file annual statements of any gifts with a fair market value of at
least $100 given to the elected official or a member of the elected official's immediate
family from persons who have or are seeking a business relationship with an agency
of the political subdivision the elected official serves. Provides civil penalties for failure
to file a statement or for filing inaccurate statements.
Reform
1/9/2014 - Authored By Vandenburgh, Shelli
HB1134 POLITICAL ACTIVITY ON HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION PROPERTY
(VANDENBURGH R) Provides that a homeowners association may not adopt or enforce
a rule that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, a candidate or an individual who
holds an elected office from entering onto homeowners association property.
1/15/2014 - House Elections and Apportionment, (Bill
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 3:30 PM, Rm. 156A
HB1135 USE OF PUBLIC SCHOOL AS POLLING PLACE (VANDENBURGH R) Provides that a
public school building may not be used as a polling place if the governing body of the
school corporation adopts a policy forbidding the use of the school building as a
polling place. Requires the governing body of the school corporation to notify the
county election board that it has adopted such a policy not later than 45 days before
an election for the policy to be effective for that election. Provides that if a school
building of a public school corporation is used as a polling place, the county election
board shall supply and pay for security at the school building throughout the time the
polls are required to be open.
Current Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to House Elections and Apportionment
1/9/2014 - Authored By Vandenburgh, Shelli
HB1138 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SCHOLARS PROGRAM (WESCO T) Provides that a
student who attends a nonaccredited, nonpublic school is eligible for the twenty-first
century scholarship if the student receives a score on the SAT or ACT test that is
greater than or equal to a score necessary to be considered in the top seventy-fifth
percentile of the SAT or ACT test scores of all students who were initially awarded a
scholarship in the previous academic year.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Wesco, Tim
HB1141 METHAMPHETAMINE LAB DISCLOSURE IN PROPERTY SALES. (MCNAMARA
W) Requires the state police department to: (1) adopt guidelines for receiving a report
from a certified inspector that property polluted by a methamphetamine laboratory
has been decontaminated; and (2) remove the property from any publicly available list
of methamphetamine contaminated properties. Requires the department of
environmental management to adopt rules requiring that any person certified by the
department to decontaminate polluted property notify the state police department
when the person has decontaminated property polluted by the manufacture of
methamphetamine. Requires the real estate commission to require an owner to
disclose if a property has been used for the manufacture of methamphetamine.
156-A
Recent Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to House Government and Regulatory
Reform
HB1143 ENVIRONMENTAL RULES AND STANDARDS. (WOLKINS D) Prohibits the
environmental rules board from adopting a rule or standard that is more stringent
than the corresponding regulation or standard established under federal law. Makes
corresponding changes in the law concerning the adoption of environmental rules.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - House Environmental Affairs, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:30 AM, 156-C
Recent Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to House Environmental Affairs
HB1149 SPEED LIMIT FOR LARGER MOTOR VEHICLES. (WASHBURNE T) Provides that
the maximum speed limit for a vehicle having a declared gross weight greater than
26,000 pounds operated on a highway that is: (1) on the national system of interstate
and defense highways located outside an urbanized area (as defined in 23 U.S.C. 101)
with a population of at least 50,000; or (2) the responsibility of the Indiana finance
authority; is 70 miles per hour. (Current law provides that the speed limit for those
vehicles is 65 miles per hour.)
1/13/2014 - Authored By Thomas Washburne
HB1150 VARIOUS ELECTION LAW MATTERS. (BARTLETT J) Defines for purposes of
Indiana election law "emergency first responder" to include a member of the military,
a public safety officer, an employee of a public utility, or a physician with an unlimited
license to practice medicine or osteopathic medicine. Permits an emergency first
responder who is responding to an emergency declaration to apply for an absentee
ballot by electronic mail or fax and receive absentee ballots by electronic mail or fax
under stated conditions. Defines "false vote history communication" as a written
communication sent to an individual that contains information about the individual's
voting history that is false. Provides ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By John Bartlett
HB1151 MINIMUM WAGE. (BARTLETT J) After June 30, 2014, increases the minimum wage
from $7.25 to $8.25 for all employers having two or more employees in the state.
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - Referred to House Employment, Labor and
Pensions
1/13/2014 - Authored By John Bartlett
HB1153 MARRIAGE AMENDMENT BALLOT LANGUAGE. (TURNER P) Requires that the
question of approval of the constitutional amendment concerning marriage proposed
by the 117th general assembly be placed on the 2014 general election ballot if the
amendment is agreed to by the 118th general assembly. Prescribes the ballot
language for the question. Describes the legislative intent of offering the constitutional
amendment.
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - House Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Time & Location: 10:00 AM, House Chamber
Recent Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to House Judiciary
HB1157 OPEN-MARKET PACE PROGRAMS. (FORESTAL D) Authorizes the legislative body
of a local governmental unit to designate an area as a clean energy improvement
financing district and authorize financing of certain qualified clean energy
improvements, including reduced water consumption and waste water discharges,
through assessments. Requires the utility regulatory commission to adopt rules to
establish technical guidelines to assist units in administering a district's program.
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - Referred to House Utilities and Energy
1/13/2014 - Authored By Dan Forestal
HB1158 PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS. (ZENT D) Specifies limitations on certain out-ofpocket costs for prescription drugs under coverage provided by a state employee
health plan, a policy of accident and sickness insurance, and a health maintenance
organization contract.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Dennis Zent
HB1159 SUBSTITUTE NATURAL GAS. (UBELHOR M) Repeals certain provisions related to a
purchase contract for substitute natural gas (SNG). Removes certain findings made by
the general assembly with respect to SNG. Removes requirements that addenda to a
purchase contract and other agreements entered into by the Indiana finance authority
and a producer of SNG be submitted to the utility regulatory commission for approval.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Matthew Ubelhor
HB1161 LOCAL GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT POOL. (PRICE J) Provides that a body
corporate and politic established as an instrumentality of: (1) the state; or (2) a unit of
local government; may pay funds into the local government investment pool for
investment by the treasurer of state. Makes conforming amendments.
1/13/2014 - Authored By John Price
HB1162 COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT FOR UTILITIES. (BRAUN S) Requires the utility
regulatory commission, before granting an application for a certificate of public
convenience and necessity, to find that the applicant used a request for proposal
process that affords open and competitive bidding.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Steven Braun
HB1164 VETERAN'S PROPERTY TAX DEDUCTIONS. (KLINKER S) Provides that after 2014,
the assessed value of an individual's tangible property may not be considered when
determining whether the individual is eligible for the property tax deduction for: (1)
totally disabled veterans; or (2) veterans who are at least 62 years of age and have a
disability of at least 10%.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Sheila Klinker
HB1165 EMPLOYMENT OR TRAINING PRIORITY FOR MILITARY. (KLINKER S) Requires
the department of workforce development (under certain circumstances) to give a
member of the armed forces of the United States, reserves, or National Guard or the
spouse of a member of the armed forces of the United States, reserves, or National
Guard priority for placement in any federal or state employment or training program
administered by the department. (Current law provides that this priority be given only
to members of the National Guard or their spouses.)
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - Referred to House Veterans Affairs and Public
Safety
HB1167 LIFE SCHOLARSHIPS. (KLINKER S) Establishes the Indiana lifelong learning
incentive for excellence (LIFE) scholarship program to provide scholarships to Indiana
residents for postsecondary education. Provides for administration of the program by
the commission for higher education. Establishes the LIFE scholarship fund consisting
of: (1) appropriations made to the fund from other sources; and (2) grants, gifts, and
donations intended for deposit in the fund. Sets forth the amount of a scholarship
award, subject to the amount of money in the LIFE scholarship fund. Provides
eligibility criteria for potential recipients.
HB1169 PUBLIC MEETINGS. (KERSEY C) Amends the definition of "meeting" for purposes of
the open door law to include a gathering that occurs by electronic means including by
electronic mail. Provides that communications between members of a governing body
by electronic mail qualify as "gatherings" for purposes of the law prohibiting a majority
of the governing body from holding a series of gatherings for the purpose of taking
official action upon public business.
Reform
1/13/2014 - Authored By Clyde Kersey
HB1170 REGIONAL DISTRICT TRUSTEES. (KERSEY C) Provides that, with respect to a
regional water, sewage, or solid waste district in which a majority of ratepayers and
property owners are not individuals, only an individual who is registered to vote at an
address located in the district may be appointed as a trustee of the district.
HB1174 TAXATION OF ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES. (HARRIS E) Amends the definition of
"tobacco product" to include electronic cigarettes for purposes of the tobacco products
tax.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Earl Harris
HB1176 LIENS BY MUNICIPALLY OWNED WATER UTILITIES. (GIAQUINTA P) Provides
that rates and charges of a municipally owned water utility constitute a lien against
property served by the municipally owned water utility. Provides that the method for
the attachment, enforcement, and foreclosure of liens by municipally owned water
utilities is the same as the existing method for wastewater utility liens. Sets forth the
order of precedence of liens asserted for both delinquent water service charges and
delinquent wastewater service fees by a municipality that owns both a water utility
and a wastewater utility.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Philip GiaQuinta
HB1177 RITE PROGRAM GRANTS. (GIAQUINTA P) Provides that the education roundtable,
with approval by the state board of education, shall develop the rewarding innovation,
technology, and excellence (RITE) program to award grants to schools that have
exhibited improvement toward benchmarks established by the state board of
education. Provides that a school corporation that applies for a grant under the RITE
program must demonstrate how the school corporation's: (1) innovation; (2) use of
technology; or (3) other efforts to achieve excellence; have led to improvement in
meeting the benchmarks. Specifies that grants under the RITE program must be made
from the innovative school improvement fund. Provides that ...
HB1180 VARIOUS COMMERCIAL VEHICLE MATTERS (FRYE R) Makes various changes
concerning the administration of the tax credit for natural gas powered vehicles.
Excludes natural gas products from the definition of alternative fuel. Excludes
alternative fuels from the definition of special fuel. Specifies that propane and butane
are alternative fuels. Establishes an alternative fuel decal system. Provides that the
road tax credit for motor carriers consuming compressed natural gas must be claimed
on a quarterly basis. Requires the department of state revenue to register commercial
fleets consisting of at least 25 vehicles, including at least one vehicle having a
declared gross vehicle weight exceeding 26,000 pounds. (Current law ...
Current Status: 1/23/2014 - House Roads and Transportation, (Bill Scheduled
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to House Roads and Transportation
HB1181 CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTERS (FRYE R) Provides that a school
corporation career and technical education center may receive a grant from the
Indiana safe schools fund. Provides that a school corporation career and technical
education center may receive an advance from the common school fund. Specifies
that each member school corporation is considered to receive a proportionate share of
the advance and is responsible for its proportionate share of the repayment based on
the number of pupils the school corporation has attending the career and technical
education center in the school year when the advance is made. Allows a school
corporation career and technical education center ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Randall Frye
HB1183 RECYCLING REPORTING, STATE GOAL, AND STUDY (WOLKINS D) Requires
each recycler of recyclable materials generated by multiple persons, beginning in
2015, to submit annually to the commissioner of the department of environmental
management (commissioner) a completed recycling activity report concerning the
recycling activities conducted by the recycler during the most recently ended fiscal
year. Requires the commissioner to post on the department's Internet web site a
uniform recycling activity report form to be used in making the annual recycling
activity reports. Requires the commissioner to submit to the environmental quality
service council an annual written report summarizing the information obtained through
the recycling activity reports submitted to the ...
Recent Status: 1/15/2014 - Committee Report, 1st House adopted
1/15/2014 - House Environmental Affairs, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:30 AM, 156-C
HB1184 TAX EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN INCOME RELATED TO PATENTS (HEUER
K) Provides an exemption from adjusted gross income taxation for income derived
from an invention in the period beginning when a patent application for the invention
is filed and ending when the patent is granted, if a patent is ultimately issued for the
invention. Provides for a new schedule of exemption percentages for the patent
exemption from adjusted gross income taxation in current law, applicable to patents
issued during taxable years beginning after December 31, 2014.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Kathleen Heuer
HB1187 EXTRATERRITORIAL MUNICIPAL SEWAGE WORKS (BACON R) Defines
"overlapping area". Provides that an ordinance adopted before July 1, 2014, that
prohibits a municipality from providing sewage treatment service to certain customers
is void. Provides that an ordinance adopted after June 30, 2014, that prohibits a
municipality from providing sewage treatment service in an overlapping area is void.
Current Status: 1/21/2014 - House Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to House Local Government
HB1188 SOIL PRODUCTIVITY FACTORS (LEHE D) Provides that the soil productivity factors
used for the March 1, 2011, assessment of agricultural land must be used for the
March 1, 2014, assessment date. Specifies that new soil productivity factors must be
used for assessment dates occurring after March 1, 2014. Provides that the
department of local government finance may not rely solely on soil data from the
United States Department of Agriculture when determining soil productivity factors
used for assessment dates occurring after March 1, 2014.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Don Lehe
HB1191 CRIMINAL TRESPASS AND AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS (FRIEND W) Makes it
criminal trespass, a Class A misdemeanor, for a person who does not have a
contractual interest in the real property of another person that contains an agricultural
operation to: (1) knowingly or intentionally enter the real property without the consent
of the other person or the other person's agent or refuse to leave the real property
after having been asked to leave by the other person or the other person's agent; and
(2) knowingly or intentionally commit an act on the real property that causes the other
person, a person who owns or operates a business or another ...
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to House Courts and Criminal Code
1/13/2014 - Authored By William Friend
HB1194 CIRCUIT BREAKER LOIT OPTION (KARICKHOFF M) Authorizes an additional tax
rate under the county adjusted gross income tax or the county option income tax to
offset circuit breaker losses sustained by the political subdivisions in a county. Provides
that the tax rate may not exceed 1%.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Michael Karickhoff
HB1195 PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX DEDUCTION (CHERRY R) Provides an assessed value
deduction to offset the effects of the 30% minimum personal property tax
depreciation floor for depreciable personal property or utility distributable property for
property newly acquired or installed after the 2014 assessment date.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Robert Cherry
HB1197 CONVENIENCE BUSINESS EMPLOYEE SAFETY (DELANEY E) Sets requirements
for security features for employees of convenience businesses that are open between
11 p.m. and 5 a.m., and makes the failure to follow the requirements a Class B
misdemeanor. Requires the commissioner of labor to issue safety orders and assess
civil penalties for violations.
Pensions
1/13/2014 - Authored By Edward DeLaney
HB1198 BUSINESS SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT WITH STATE (HEUER K) Specifies that
state agencies, including the department of workforce development and the
department of state revenue, shall provide assistance at no cost to the secretary of
state in developing and maintaining a one stop Internet web site for businesses to
use. Requires the department of state revenue and the department of workforce
development to coordinate with the secretary of state to use an Internet web site to
share information with other state agencies and to provide a single point of contact
with all state agencies for a person to accomplish various requirements to transact
business in the state.
Reform
HB1200 LEGISLATIVE PURPOSES OF AGRICULTURE LAWS (LEHE D) Declares the state
policy on agriculture and farmers' rights. Prohibits the impairment of traditional or
modern farming and livestock production practices.
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to House Agriculture and Rural
Development
1/13/2014 - Authored By Don Lehe
HB1201 TAX CREDIT FOR TOP STEM GRADUATES (PELATH S) Provides an income tax
credit each year for Indiana residents who graduate in 2014, and each year thereafter,
from an Indiana college or university with a baccalaureate or more advanced degree
as one of the top 1,000 graduates in Indiana in science, technology, engineering, or
mathematics (STEM) in that year. Provides that the tax credit is equal to the amount
of the individual's Indiana adjusted gross income tax liability in each of the first five
taxable years that begin after December 31 of the individual's year of graduation.
Requires the commission for higher education to determine and certify an individual's
...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Scott Pelath
HB1204 VARIOUS EDUCATION AND SCHOOL MATTERS (HUSTON T) Provides that if the
parent, guardian, guardian ad litem, or court appointed special guardian of a child
enrolled in a school requests a health care provider to disclose certain mental health
information to the child's school, the health care provider shall provide the child's
school the information. Prohibits a superintendent from excusing or excluding a
student who was found to be mentally or physically unfit for school attendance if a
physician, psychologist, or psychiatrist certifies that the student is fit for school
attendance. Provides that the witness fee for an employee of a school district is $100.
Provides civil immunity ...
HB1206 INSURANCE MATTERS (LEHMAN M) Removes a requirement for certain insurers to
submit individual investments to the commissioner of insurance. Removes a
requirement that a foreign or alien insurer submit an application in duplicate. Changes
from March 15 to July 1 of each year the due date for certain insurance holding
company filings. Adds a National Association of Insurance Commissioners provision
requiring domestic insurers to perform certain risk management assessments and
submit annual reports concerning the assessments. Repeals a provision requiring the
commissioner of insurance to examine and publish in a newspaper a foreign or alien
insurer's annual condensed statement of assets and liabilities. Specifies ...
adopted
HB1207 ADMINISTRATION OF STANDARDIZED TESTS (RHOADS R) Provides that the
department of education, a school corporation, or school may not require a student to
use a computer to complete a required statewide, national, or international test if the
student's parent or the student, if the student is at least 18 years of age or
emancipated, requests to complete the test on paper, or if the use of paper is required
by the student's individualized education program.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Rhonda Rhoads
HB1208 STATE PUBLIC WORKS STANDARDS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY (MOED
J) Provides that all state public works projects must be designed, constructed,
operated, and maintained to achieve maximum energy efficiency to the extent that
this goal can be accomplished on a cost effective basis, considering construction and
operating costs over the life cycle of the building or structure. Provides that Indiana
hardwood lumber must be considered for use in all state public works projects as a
local source material, where practicable.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Justin Moed
HB1209 TAX CREDIT FOR HIRING NEW EMPLOYEES (MOED J) Provides a tax credit
against state tax liability to a small business for hiring a sufficient number of new
employees after December 31, 2013, and before January 1, 2017: (1) who are
receiving unemployment benefits or have exhausted their unemployment benefits; or
(2) who are former members of the armed services of the United States or the
National Guard.
HB1210 TEACHER LOAN REPAYMENT (MOED J) Provides an educational loan repayment for
a public elementary or high school teacher who: (1) was in the highest 20% of the
individual's high school graduating classes or in the top twentieth percentile on the
SAT or ACT examination; (2) graduated from college with at least a 3.5 grade point
average; and (3) teaches science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or special
education, or teaches in a critical shortage geographic area; in a public school in
Indiana. Provides that at the end of the third consecutive year the teacher teaches,
the commission for higher education makes a payment of $9,000 or the ...
HB1211 INDEXING FAMILY TAX EXEMPTIONS (BROWN T) Requires that the income tax
exemption for individuals, dependents, individuals who are blind, and the elderly
(including a dependent child and the elderly with an adjusted gross income less than
$40,000) must be adjusted according to the Consumer Price Index.
HB1213 CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION DIPLOMA (MCNAMARA W) Requires the
Indiana works councils to develop a career and technical education diploma (diploma)
for high school students. Requires the Indiana career council to appoint a
subcommittee that includes a member of each council and representatives of high
school career and technical education programs, the department of education,
community colleges, and industry to develop the requirements for the diploma.
Requires the subcommittee to obtain input in developing the diploma requirements
from licensed mathematics and English/language arts educators. Authorizes the
subcommittee to design new curricula or create new courses in developing the
diploma. Provides that the diploma must require at least ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Wendy McNamara
HB1215 TAX CREDITS (CLERE E) Transfers administration of the historic rehabilitation tax
credit from the division of historic preservation and archeology of the department of
natural resources to the office of community and rural affairs (office). Provides that
the credit applies to the preservation or rehabilitation of historic properties that have
been vacant for at least one year. Establishes four new methodologies for determining
the amount of the tax credit. Provides that a property's adjusted basis is not reduced
by the amount of the credit if a person is entitled to a federal low income housing tax
credit. Changes numerous spending floors and caps relating ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Edward Clere
HB1216 ZONING COMMITMENTS (TRUITT R) Allows, with regard to a commitment made
after June 30, 2014, the legislative body of a municipality that annexed real property
subject to a commitment to: (1) modify or terminate the commitment; and (2) enforce
the commitment; if the annexation is effective after the date the commitment was
made. Provides that a decision of the legislative body regarding modification or
termination of a commitment is subject to judicial review.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Randy Truitt
HB1217 SINGLE CONTACT POINT FOR WETLAND WORK PERMITS (DAVISSON
S) Requires the department of natural resources (DNR), whenever it is contacted by a
person who intends to remove an obstruction or do similar work in or near a stream or
in a wetland area, to: (1) analyze the work that the person intends to do; (2) inform
the person of whether, in order to do the work, the person is required to obtain a
water quality certification from the department of environmental management (IDEM),
a permit from IDEM for wetland activity in a state regulated wetland, or a permit from
the director of DNR for a structure, obstruction, deposit, or ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Steven Davisson
HB1219 FARM PRODUCTS AND VEHICLES (CHERRY R) Amends the definitions of "farm
product" and "farm vehicles" for purposes of the motor vehicle law. Makes conforming
changes.
HB1222 ADOPTION COMMITTEE AND TAX CREDIT (KUBACKI R) Provides an adjusted
gross income tax credit for an individual who is eligible to claim the federal adoption
credit. Establishes the interim committee on adoption. Requires the committee to: (1)
study how other states have partnered with private, faith based, and community
entities to provide services under the public adoption programs of those states and
study the legal and regulatory costs associated with foster care and private adoption
in Indiana; (2) make recommendations concerning improving adoption programs in
Indiana; and (3) report, before November 1, 2014, the committee's findings and
recommendations to the governor and the department of child services.
Current Status: 1/16/2014 - Committee Report, 1st House do pass, adopted
Recent Status: 1/15/2014 - House Family, Children and Human Affairs, (Bill
1/14/2014 - Referred to House Family, Children and Human
Affairs
HB1225 LOCAL OPTION INCOME TAXES (KARICKHOFF M) Provides that an individual who
has a principal place of employment or business in a county other than the individual's
county of residence shall pay a county adjusted gross income tax, county option
income tax, or county economic development income tax imposed by the county
where the individual maintains the principal place of employment or business at a rate
that is one-fourth of the sum of certain tax rates imposed on residents of the county
under those taxes. Excludes certain county adjusted gross income tax rates and
county economic development income tax rates for capital improvements from the
calculation of ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Michael Karickhoff
HB1226 COUNTY ASSET SALE FUND (MOSELEY C) Authorizes a county that sells a county
asset for more than $50,000,000 to establish a major county asset sale fund as a trust
fund for the deposit of the proceeds of the sale. Provides that the principal of the fund
may not be diminished. Specifies that interest earned on the fund may be used to
supplement the county general fund or for projects proposed by the county executive
and approved by a majority vote of the combined membership of the county fiscal
body and county executive.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Charles Moseley
HB1228 INCOME TAX DEDUCTION FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC SAFETY PROVIDERS
(BATTLES K) Provides to an individual an adjusted gross income tax deduction equal
to the lesser of: (1) the amount of income received by an individual for service as a
volunteer firefighter, a police reserve officer, or a member of the Indiana guard
reserve; or (2) $2,000.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Kreg Battles
HB1229 MARION COUNTY FIRE CONSOLIDATION (KIRCHHOFER C) Authorizes the
consolidation of a township fire department or fire protection territory in Marion
County into the fire department of the consolidated city if the following occur: (1) The
mayor of the consolidated city adopts a resolution approving the consolidation. (2)
The city-county council adopts an ordinance approving the consolidation. (3) The
mayor of the consolidated city approves the ordinance of the city-county council.
Provides that a consolidation is effective on the date set forth in the ordinance
adopted by the city-county council. Provides for the transfer of cumulative building
and equipment fund balances, debt service balances, and firefighting fund ...
Reform
1/13/2014 - Authored By Cindy Kirchhofer
HB1230 TAX CREDITS FOR FAMILY CAREGIVERS (NEGELE S) Provides a tax credit for
certain expenses incurred by a taxpayer to: (1) make an improvement or alteration to
the taxpayer's residence; or (2) purchase or lease equipment; that is necessary to
assist an eligible family member (an elderly lineal ancestor) in carrying out one or
more activities of daily living. Provides that the taxpayer claiming the credit must have
a federal adjusted gross income of less than $40,000 and that the eligible family
member must: (1) have the same principal place of abode as the taxpayer; (2) have
federal adjusted gross income of less than $30,000; and (3) not ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Sharon Negele
HB1231 PENSION COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS (GUTWEIN D) Provides for cost of
living adjustments for certain members of the: (1) public employees' retirement fund;
(2) Indiana state teachers' retirement fund; (3) the state police pre-1987 benefit
system; and (4) the state police 1987 benefit system.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Recommitted (reassigned) to Ways & Means
Recent Status: 1/15/2014 - House Employment, Labor and Pensions, (Bill
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 8:30 AM, Rm. 156D
1/15/2014 - House Financial Institutions, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 12:45 PM, Rm. 156-A
HB1232 PICKETING (GUTWEIN D) Provides that a person that engages in unlawful picketing
may be enjoined and may be subject to actual and consequential damage to business
sales, business opportunities, or property.
Pensions
1/13/2014 - Authored By Doug Gutwein
HB1233 BACKGROUND CHECKS BY SCHOOLS (THOMPSON J) Makes changes to the
definition of "expanded criminal history check". Provides that an employee of a school
corporation, a charter school, or an accredited nonpublic school must receive an
expanded criminal history check every five years.
HB1234 PROPERTY TAX MATTERS (THOMPSON J) Changes the assessment date for
property tax purposes from March 1 to January 1, beginning with property taxes
payable in 2016. Provides that for residential real property or a mobile home that is
not assessed as real property and that is equipped with a solar, wind, geothermal, or
hydroelectric heating or cooling system, the assessed value of the property is not to
be increased if the improvement replaces a traditional heating or cooling system.
Changes the assessed value deduction amounts from 100% to 50% of the out-ofpocket costs for solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric devices that are placed on
residential ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Jeffrey Thompson
HB1238 INDIANA NEW MARKETS JOB GROWTH TAX CREDIT (SMALTZ B) Establishes a
new markets job growth credit against state tax liability for investments made by a
taxpayer in a qualified community development entity that then uses the proceeds of
the investment to make investments in certain qualified active low income community
businesses located in Indiana. Specifies that the tax credit is equal to an applicable
percentage multiplied by the purchase price of the qualified investment. Requires a
qualified community development entity to pay a nonrefundable application fee of
$5,000 for each qualified equity investment that the qualified community development
entity seeks to have approved by the Indiana economic development corporation ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Ben Smaltz
HB1239 DEDUCTION FOR INVESTMENT INTEREST (SMALTZ B) Allows an individual to
subtract investment interest payments in the calculation of the individual's Indiana
adjusted gross income if the investment interest payments are: (1) made with respect
to tangible property held for investment in Indiana; and (2) deducted from federal
adjusted gross income for federal income tax purposes.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Ben Smaltz
HB1241 ENVIRONMENTAL COVERAGE (CARBAUGH M) Specifies the manner in which the
meaning of "pollutant", as used in certain liability insurance policies, must be
construed.
adopted
HB1242 EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST VETERANS (CARBAUGH M) Provides
that it is an unlawful employment practice (practice) for an employer to discriminate
against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by: (1) refusing to
employ an applicant for employment on the basis that the applicant is a veteran of the
armed forces of the United States; or (2) refusing to employ an applicant for
employment on the basis that the applicant is a member of the Indiana national guard
or member of a reserve component. Requires the Indiana civil rights commission to
enforce alleged violations of the practice. Requires the Indiana department of
veterans' ...
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to House Employment, Labor and
Pensions
HB1243 COUNTY GOVERNMENT ISSUES (CARBAUGH M) Provides that in a county having a
population of more than 300,000 but less than 400,000, a public question shall be
held in the county at the 2014 general election on whether the executive and
legislative structure of county government should be changed. Provides that if the
public question is approved, the voters of the county shall not elect a board of county
commissioners, but shall instead elect a single county executive to serve as the county
executive and shall elect a county council that has the legislative and fiscal powers
and duties of the county. Provides that in a ...
Reform
1/13/2014 - Authored By Martin Carbaugh
HB1244 DONATIONS BY SCHOOL CORPORATIONS (NIEZGODSKI D) Reenacts a provision
(which expired in 2012) that authorizes a school corporation to donate up to $25,000
per year from the general fund of the school corporation to a public school
endowment corporation or community foundation if the donation is matched by a
private donor. Specifies that the principal and income from the donation shall be
distributed only to the school corporation as directed by resolution of the governing
body of the school corporation, and that the school corporation may use the
distributions only for programs and activities that enhance the quality of education or
extend learning opportunities for students ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By David Niezgodski
HB1246 SOLID WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL CONTRACTS (CARBAUGH
M) Authorizes a city other than Indianapolis or a town to enter into a contract for the
collection and disposal of solid waste through a request for proposals process instead
of a bidding process.
Reform
HB1249 ASSESSMENT MATTERS (FRYE R) Provides that a well is defined as real property
for purposes of the property tax laws. Provides that agricultural land shall be assessed
using the soil productivity factors used for the March 1, 2011, assessment date for
assessment dates occurring after December 31, 2013, unless and until new soil
productivity factors are approved in a statute enacted by the general assembly.
(Current law provides for the use of the 2011 soil productivity factors through the
2013 assessment date and requires the use of new soil productivity factors beginning
with the March 1, 2014, assessment date.)
1/13/2014 - Authored By Randall Frye
HB1250 FIRE PROTECTION TERRITORIES (BACON R) Specifies that an individual who: (1)
is an employee of a participating unit in a fire protection territory; or (2) serves as a
volunteer firefighter in a department that provides fire protection services to one or
more participating units in a fire protection territory; may not be a member of any
board or committee established by the participating units for purposes of governing
the fire protection territory, recommending a budget for the fire protection territory, or
otherwise overseeing the fire protection territory. Provides that this provision does not
prohibit the executive or a member of the executive body of a ...
Reform
1/13/2014 - Authored By Ronald Bacon
HB1251 TAX CREDIT FOR TUITION EXPENSES (BATTLES K) Provides a tax credit against
state tax liability to an employer that incurs tuition expenses for a course taken by an
employee at a state educational institution if the employee achieves a final grade point
of at least 2.0 (or its equivalent) for the course.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Kreg Battles
HB1252 PROPERTY TAX APPEAL SETTLEMENTS (HARRIS E) Provides that an agreement
to settle a disputed assessment of a riverboat that results in an annual property tax
reduction of more than $1,000,000 for property taxes due and payable in at least two
calendar years is contrary to public policy and is illegal, unenforceable, void, and of no
effect.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Earl Harris
HB1254 FREE CURRICULAR MATERIALS IN K-12 SCHOOLS (ARNOLD L) Requires public
schools to provide curricular materials to students at no cost to a student. Makes
corresponding changes. Repeals superseded provisions.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Lloyd Arnold
HB1255 LOCAL GOVERNMENT INVESTMENTS (PRICE J) Provides the state treasurer the
authority to establish a program that permits political subdivisions to invest public
deposits in a high yield savings account at an approved public depository and permits
the public depository receiving the deposit to redeposit the money in other federally
insured financial institutions located in the United States.
Current Status: 1/22/2014 - House Financial Institutions, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 1:30 PM, Rm. 156-A
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to House Financial Institutions
HB1256 TAX CREDIT FOR FEDERAL TAX ON MEDICAL DEVICES (AUSTIN T) Provides a
tax credit against state tax liability for the amount of a taxpayer's federal medical
device excise tax liability apportioned to Indiana.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Terri Austin
HB1260 BENEFIT CORPORATIONS (COX C) Allows a business entity to incorporate as a
benefit corporation under Indiana law.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Casey Cox
HB1261 EDUCATION EXPENSE TAX CREDITS (COX C) Provides a refundable tax credit for
certain education expenses incurred by a qualified employee. Provides that the credit
is equal to the lesser of 1/3 of the education expenses incurred or $10,000.
HB1262 REDISTRICTING COMMISSION (MOED J) Establishes a redistricting commission to
create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw
general assembly districts and congressional districts. Requires the legislative services
agency (agency) to provide staff and administrative services to the commission.
Establishes standards to govern the commission and the agency in the creation of
redistricting plans. Provides that if the Constitution of the State of Indiana does not
require the general assembly to establish legislative districts, the commission's
recommendations for legislative and congressional districts become the plans that
define those districts. Provides that, if the Constitution of the State of Indiana so ...
HB1263 PROPERTY TAX MATTERS (KERSEY C) Provides that for assessment dates occurring
after February 28, 2015, a parcel's land value may not be increased by more than 5%
of the most recently determined land value that applied to the parcel for the preceding
assessment date. Provides that in a review or appeal of an assessment initiated after
June 30, 2014, the county assessor or township assessor making the assessment has
the burden of proving that the assessment is correct and in any appeals taken to the
Indiana board of tax review or to the Indiana tax court.
HB1264 CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES BY CERTAIN EMPLOYEES (TRUITT R) Changes the
definition of "government employee" to "taxpayer-funded employee" and "government
employer" to "taxpayer-funded employer" in the law governing election campaign
violations. Adds an employee of a nonpublic school that accepts choice scholarships to
the definition of "taxpayer-funded employee", and a nonpublic school that accepts
choice scholarships to the definition of "taxpayer-funded employer". Prohibits a
taxpayer-funded employee from using a taxpayer-funded employer's property for
certain election campaign activities and from carrying out certain election campaign
activities on a taxpayer-funded employer's property during regular working hours.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Randy Truitt
HB1266 LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE ISSUES (LEONARD D) Provides that public utility
property tax returns shall be filed in the manner prescribed by the department of local
government finance (DLGF). Allows a railroad car company to file its return by July 1
(rather than May 1). Authorizes a public utility company to file an amended return.
Provides that the penalty assessed on a public utility company for filing a late return
may not exceed $1,000. Provides that if the DLGF assesses the property of a public
utility company because the public utility company does not file a return, the public
utility company may file a return with the ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Daniel Leonard
HB1267 CONSOLIDATION OF TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENTS (NEGELE S) Provides that on
January 1, 2019, in all counties (except Marion County) all townships are consolidated
into a single township (consolidated township). On January 1, 2019, in all counties
(except Marion County) the offices of township trustee and township board of the
former townships are eliminated and their powers, duties, and responsibilities are
transferred to the offices of township trustee and township board of the consolidated
township. Provides that at the 2018 general election and every four years thereafter:
(1) a three member township board is elected at large to serve as the legislative and
fiscal body of the consolidated ...
Reform
HB1277 ABANDONED PROPERTY (SLAGER H) Defines "abandoned real property" for the
purpose of a tax sale as real property that: (1) has failed to sell in three tax sales
conducted by the county treasurer; (2) has failed to sell in three sales conducted by
the county executive; and (3) for which no person having a substantial property
interest of public record in the real property has declared that the real property is not
abandoned in defense of the judgment against the real property. Provides that if real
property is certified by a county executive as abandoned real property, the county
executive may sell the real ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Harold Slager
HB1280 LAND BANKS AND TAX SALE ISSUES (CLERE E) Authorizes a county, consolidated
city, or second class city to which the unsafe building law applies to establish a
municipal corporation known as a land bank to manage and improve the marketability
of distressed real property in the county or city that establishes the land bank.
Provides that if a county executive acquires a certificate of sale because real property
on the tax sale list failed to sell at the tax sale and the real property is located in the
territory of a land bank, the county executive shall offer to assign the certificate of
sale to the land bank ...
Reform
HB1281 ADMINISTRATION OF COUNTY INCOME TAXES (CULVER W) Provides that
county income tax revenue deposited in a county's account within the state general
fund is held by the state in trust for the county. Requires the department of state
revenue to record and track the amount of county income tax that is received from
county taxpayers (either through withholding or directly from a county taxpayer) of
each county for a particular taxable year. Provides that in January of each year, the
budget agency shall make a supplemental distribution of county income tax revenue to
a county. Specifies that the amount of the supplemental distribution is equal to the ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Wes Culver
HB1282 SEWER LIENS FOR TENANT OCCUPIED PROPERTY (CULVER W) Provides that
for purposes of the statutes governing municipal sewage works and storm water
works, a lien does not attach for user fees assessed against property occupied by
someone other than the owner if either of the following applies: (1) The property
owner or the tenant gives notice to the entity assessing the fees that the tenant is
responsible for paying the fees and requests that the account or other customer or
billing records maintained by the assessing entity for the property be in the name of
the tenant. (2) The account or other customer or billing records maintained by ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Wes Culver
HB1283 HIGH PERFORMANCE SCHOOL BUILDINGS (PIERCE M) Provides that a public
works contract for the construction, reconstruction, repair, alteration, or retrofitting of
a building that is or will be owned by or leased to a school corporation must require
that the building be designed with the goal of achieving: (1) the Silver certification
under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) rating system; (2) the Two Globes certification under the Green
Building Initiative's Green Globes rating system; or (3) an equivalent rating under an
equivalent rating system that is accredited by the American National Standards
Institute. Requires that the plans and specifications ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Matt Pierce
HB1285 WABASH, WHITE, AND OHIO RIVERS AQUIFER STUDY (STEMLER S) Requires
the department of natural resources (department) to: (1) identify, study, and gather
information about the aquifers directly connected with the Wabash River, the White
River, and the Ohio River; (2) establish and maintain a common data base containing
the information gathered about those aquifers; (3) submit to the water resources
study committee a status report concerning the study conducted and the information
gathered; and (4) develop water conservation measures for the river basins of the
Wabash River, the White River, and the Ohio River that are consistent with water
conservation measures developed by the department for the Great Lakes-St. ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Steven Stemler
HB1286 ANNUAL TRANSPORTATION REPORTS (SULLIVAN H) Requires the following
entities to provide annual reports to the joint study committee on transportation and
infrastructure assessment and solutions: (1) The Indiana department of
transportation. (2) The bureau of motor vehicles. (3) The Indiana finance authority.
(4) Purdue University.
HB1287 SCHOOL DISCIPLINE (PORTER G) Provides that, not later than July 1, 2015, the
department of education (department) shall develop, maintain, and make available to
schools and school corporations a model evidence based plan for improving behavior
and discipline within schools. Provides that a charter school and a school corporation
shall establish an evidence based plan for improving student behavior and discipline.
Provides that the department, in collaboration with certain entities, shall provide
assistance to a charter school or school corporation in the implementation of the
charter school or school corporation's plan. Requires a school corporation and charter
school to compile and report certain information ...
HB1288 HANDGUN PERMIT INDICATION (ZENT D) Provides that an individual may
request that the bureau of motor vehicles (bureau) place a notation on the individual's
driver's license or identification card that indicates that the individual possesses a
lifetime handgun license. Requires the bureau to verify whether the individual has a
lifetime handgun license by contacting the superintendent of the state police
department (superintendent). Requires the superintendent to conduct a background
investigation concerning the individual and report the results of the investigation to
the bureau. Makes a technical correction.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Dennis Zent
HB1294 TAX CREDITS FOR HIRING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS (HALE C) Provides a tax
credit against state tax liability for a small business that hires an eligible individual as a
full-time employee in Indiana. Defines an "eligible individual" as a veteran, an
individual who is at least 50 years of age, or an individual who has been totally
unemployed for each of the 26 weeks preceding the hiring date. Specifies that the
amount of the credit for hiring an eligible individual is the lesser of: (1) the amount of
the unreimbursed training expenses incurred by the taxpayer in hiring the eligible
individual; or (2) $1,000.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Christina Hale
HB1299 LOCAL REGULATION OF OIL AND GAS WELLS (KOCH E) Provides that a: (1)
county ordinance may not regulate the exploration, drilling, deepening, conversion, or
operation of any well for oil and gas purposes; and (2) municipality may not regulate
the operation of any oil and gas well concerning hydraulic fracturing (unless the
operation is regulated under a zoning ordinance); unless granted a waiver by the
director of the oil and gas division of the department of natural resources.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Eric Koch
HB1304 AUDITS OF SCHOOLS (VANNATTER H) Authorizes the state board of accounts to
audit a public or private holding company leasing a school building to a school
corporation. Allows a school corporation to contract with a certified public accountant
for an annual audit. Provides that a lease agreement between a school corporation
and a public holding company entered into after June 30, 2014, must include an
option to allow the school corporation to audit the use of public funds or the property
contained in the lease agreement. Provides that a lease agreement between a school
corporation and a private holding company entered into after June 30, ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Heath VanNatter
HB1307 VARIOUS NATURAL RESOURCE MATTERS (EBERHART S) Defines "georeferenced". Allows a professional surveyor to use a geo-referenced aerial photograph
in order to prepare a description of a parcel. Exempts from the boat excise tax a
motorboat registered outside Indiana and docked on the Indiana part of Lake
Michigan for a combined total of not more than 180 consecutive days. Amends certain
definitions. Allows the director of the department of natural resources (DNR) to adopt
rules that would authorize the taking of a wild animal in a state park under certain
circumstances. Allows the director of DNR to consider certain factors when
determining damages caused by a person ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Sean Eberhart
HB1308 FUNDING OF LAWSUITS (EBERHART S) Establishes a procedure by which a
company may provide funding to the plaintiff in an action in exchange for the
contingent right to receive a part of the potential proceeds of the action. Requires a
company that offers funding to plaintiffs to register with the secretary of state.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Sean Eberhart
HB1309 MEDICAID MATTERS (CLERE E) Establishes the affordable care committee. Allows
the department of state revenue to establish a procedure to set off the earned income
credit and the tax refund of certain Medicaid recipients for out-of-pocket expenses
owed by the recipient. Modifies Medicaid provider reimbursement to Medicare
reimbursement rates for services provided to certain Medicaid recipients. Adds
Medicaid rehabilitation option services, chiropractic services, and optometric services
to the Indiana check-up plan. Requires the office of Medicaid policy and planning
(office) to negotiate with the United States Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS) for a Medicaid state plan amendment or Medicaid waiver concerning expansion
...
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Referred to House Public Health
HB1311 RENTER'S DEDUCTION (FORESTAL D) Increases the maximum renter's deduction
for state income tax purposes from $3,000 to $6,000 for taxable years beginning after
December 31, 2014.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Dan Forestal
HB1315 TAX SALES AND ABANDONED HOUSES (MOED J) Requires the attorney general to
establish and maintain a tax sale blight registry of all persons ineligible to participate
in the tax sale. Provides that properties certified as vacant or abandoned may be sold
outright at the tax sale. Prohibits foreign business associations who have not
registered with the secretary of state from participating in the tax sale. Permits a
county to establish a paddle fee for persons who attend the tax sale. Permits a county
executive to intervene in a mortgage foreclosure action and request a court to
extinguish a creditor's lien on a vacant or abandoned property if ...
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - Authored By Justin Moed
Recent Status:
HB1316 ABORTION PROVIDERS (ZIEMKE C) Requires the state department of health to
inspect an abortion clinic at least one time per year. Voids part of an administrative
rule that exempts abortion clinics operating before July 1, 2006, from the rule
governing the physical plant specifications for abortion clinics. Removes a provision
allowing a physician to perform an abortion if the physician has entered into an
agreement with a physician who has admitting privileges in the county where the
abortion is performed or in a contiguous county.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Cindy Ziemke
HB1318 VARIOUS ELECTION LAW MATTERS (RICHARDSON K) Adds a definition of "de
minimis change" for voting systems, and creates a process for the review and
approval of these changes for voting systems used in Indiana. Specifies how a voter
can cast a ballot using a "sip puff device" on a voting system that combines features
of both an optical scan ballot and a direct record electronic voting system. Transfers
dates regarding the late registration of military and overseas voters. Permits the
Indiana election division or a county election board to use electronic mail to forward a
filing confirmation to a candidate who provides an electronic mail address ...
1/14/2014 - Authored By Kathy Richardson
HB1319 EDUCATION MATTERS (BEHNING R) Repeals a provision that establishes an
expiration date of January 1, 2015, for the commission on education (commission).
Provides that the commission may study and evaluate issues relating to the education
of the citizens of Indiana. Changes the date, from December 1 to November 1, on
which the commission's final report is due. Makes conforming amendments.
Establishes the commission on unused and underutilized school facilities. Requires the
department of education (department) to disaggregate from the ISTEP program test
results the percentage of students in each school and each grade who are identified as
high ability students by the school corporation ...
1/14/2014 - Authored By Robert Behning
HB1320 STUDENT RECORDS (BEHNING R) Requires the state board of education to
establish a statewide student record repository of public school student achievement
records to provide: (1) access to relevant student records to parents and school
corporations; (2) for the transfer of student records between school corporations; and
(3) a student data backup for school corporations.
HB1321 PORTFOLIO SCHOOLS (BEHNING R) Authorizes Indianapolis public schools to enter
into an agreement with a school management team to establish portfolio schools.
HB1324 PROPERTY TAX PAYMENT PLANS (SLAGER H) Provides that a taxpayer who
defaults on a payment arrangement under which the taxpayer's real property is
removed from the tax sale list may enter into a new payment arrangement for taxes
due on the same real property if the taxpayer agrees: (1) to make a down payment of
1/3 of the property taxes owed when the new payment arrangement is entered into;
and (2) to pay the remaining balance of the taxes owed within one year after the new
payment arrangement is entered into.
1/14/2014 - Authored By Harold Slager
HB1325 FARMLAND ASSESSMENTS (PRICE J) Requires the department of local government
finance to eliminate in the calculation of the rolling average used in annual adjustment
to the base rate for agricultural land the two years among the six years for which the
highest and second highest market values in use of agricultural land are determined.
HB1326 FOOD AND BEVERAGE TAXES (PRICE J) Authorizes Angola, Danville, Elkhart,
Goshen, Greenwood, Rockville, and Rushville to adopt municipal food and beverage
taxes. Provides that the tax rates may not exceed 1%. Specifies the uses to which
receipts from the food and beverage taxes may be applied.
HB1327 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (RIECKEN G) Removes provisions that prohibit an
individual who performs services (other than in an instructional, research, or principal
administrative capacity) for an educational institution, in an educational institution
while in the employ of an educational service agency, or for a government, nonprofit,
or private employer that provides services to an educational institution, from being
eligible to receive an unemployment insurance benefit during vacation periods and
between academic years or terms.
Pensions
1/14/2014 - Authored By Gail Riecken
HB1329 LOBBYIST CODE OF CONDUCT (RIECKEN G) Establishes standards of conduct for
legislative lobbyists. Authorizes the Indiana lobby registration commission
(commission) to adopt rules to implement and enforce the standards of conduct.
Authorizes a legislative person to file a complaint alleging that a lobbyist has violated
the standards. Authorizes the commission to impose certain sanctions on a lobbyist if
the commission finds the lobbyist has violated the standards. Makes conforming
changes in the lobbyist registration statute.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Referred to House Rules and Legislative
Procedures
1/14/2014 - Authored By Gail Riecken
HB1331 ELIMINATION OF TOWNSHIP BOARDS (SMITH M) Abolishes township boards.
Specifies that: (1) in the case of a township board for which the members were
elected in 2010, the township board is abolished on January 1, 2015; and (2) in the
case of a township board for which the members were elected in 2012, the township
board is abolished on January 1, 2017. Specifies that after a township board is
abolished: (1) the county fiscal body is the fiscal body and legislative body of each
township in the county; and (2) the county fiscal body shall exercise the legislative
and fiscal powers assigned in the Indiana Code ...
Reform
1/14/2014 - Authored By Milo Smith
HB1332 OFFICE OF SMALL BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (MESSMER M) Codifies
the law concerning the office of small business and entrepreneurship. Transfers the
small business development center, the small business ombudsman, and the young
entrepreneurs program from the Indiana economic development corporation to the
office of small business and entrepreneurship by removing or repealing the
appropriate provisions in the Indiana economic development corporation law and
recodifying them in the law concerning the lieutenant governor. Extends the young
entrepreneurs program by two years. Makes conforming changes.
1/14/2014 - Authored By Mark Messmer
HB1338 WORK SHARING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS (DERMODY T) Establishes a work
sharing unemployment insurance program. Requires an employer that wishes to
participate in the work sharing unemployment insurance program to submit a work
sharing plan for approval by the commissioner of the department of workforce
development. Establishes the work sharing benefit as equal to an affected employee's
unemployment benefit reduced by a percentage that is equivalent to the number of
hours by which an affected employee's normal weekly work hours are reduced divided
by the employer's number of normal weekly work hours.
Pensions
1/14/2014 - Authored By Thomas Dermody
HB1341 ANNEXATION (NEGELE S) Provides the following with regard to an annexation for
which an annexation ordinance is adopted after April 1, 2014: (1) With certain
exceptions, prohibits a municipality from amending the annexation ordinance or fiscal
plan after the date the annexation ordinance is introduced. (2) Provides that if a court
finds that an annexation remonstrance petition is sufficient, the court shall order the
annexation not to take place. (3) Provides that the only issue addressed in a
remonstrance hearing is the sufficiency of the annexation remonstrance petition. (4)
Requires the municipality in the fiscal plan to provide information about capital
improvements and ...
HB1342 ENVIRONMENTAL FEES AND EXPENSES (WOLKINS D) Provides that the
hazardous waste disposal fee (which replaces the hazardous waste disposal tax), the
fee on the disposal or incineration of solid waste, and the annual registration fee paid
by owners of underground storage tanks shall be collected by the department of
environmental management instead of the department of state revenue. Provides that
if an underground storage tank consists of a single tank in which there are separate
compartments, a separate annual registration fee shall be paid for each compartment
within the single tank. Allows the commissioner of the department of environmental
management, under certain circumstances, to authorize the ...
1/14/2014 - Authored By David Wolkins
HB1346 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (LEONARD D) Adds language concerning the public
policy involved in the application and payment of unemployment benefits (benefits).
Removes any burden of proof from the determination of eligibility for benefits. Repeals
provisions concerning the process for determining a positive drug test for purposes of
an individual's disqualification for benefits. Removes language concerning a
department of workforce development's (department) rule or policy regarding an
employer's filing of a notice in connection with an individual, group, or mass
separation arising from a vacation period. Provides that the eligibility for benefits must
be conditioned solely upon the eligibility requirements established by IC 22-4 in order
...
Recent Status: 1/15/2014 - Referred to House Employment, Labor and
Pensions
HB1351 WELFARE MATTERS; DRUG TESTING (MCMILLIN J) Requires the division of family
resources to: (1) apply for a waiver to require certain public assistance recipients to
show photo identification when using the recipient's electronic benefits transfer (EBT)
card; and (2) establish a pilot program within the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (SNAP) to allow SNAP benefits to be used only for food and beverages that
have sufficient nutritional value, as determined by the division of family resources.
Makes an exception to the photo identification requirement for recipients who are
disabled or at least 65 years of age. Requires the office of the secretary of family and
social services ...
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Referred to House Family, Children and Human
Affairs
1/14/2014 - Authored By Jud McMillin
HB1352 VARIOUS EDUCATION MATTERS (SMITH V) Adds a definition of "state
immunization registry". Provides that disaggregated staff performance evaluation
results reported to the department of education by a school corporation are not
subject to public record requests. Changes criteria under which a student may receive
a graduation waiver. Repeals a provision that requires the chief administrative officer
of a school to provide students and parents information concerning meningococcal
disease. Removes a provision that school immunization records must be kept
uniformly throughout Indiana. Requires the state department of health to publish a
two year calendar of immunization requirements and recommendations. Removes a
requirement that a school must ...
1/14/2014 - Authored By Vernon Smith
HB1354 PROPERTY TAXES (SMITH V) Permits the department of local government finance,
with the approval of the attorney general, to compromise the amount of property
taxes imposed on: (1) a nonprofit corporation organized for educational, literary,
scientific, religious, or charitable purposes; or (2) any other nonprofit entity organized
as a church or religious entity. Provides that certain requirements must be met before
a taxpayer's property tax liability may be compromised.
HB1355 SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY (SMITH V) Provides that when calculating a school's
performance category or designation, the state board of education shall reward a
school when determining the school's performance if students in certain subgroups
demonstrate academic growth.
HB1357 UNIFORM PRIOR AUTHORIZATION FORM (BROWN C) Requires the department
of insurance to develop a uniform prior authorization form for prescription drug
coverage. Allows a prescribing provider to use, and requires an insurer or health
maintenance organization that requires prior authorization of prescription drug
coverage to accept, a completed uniform prior authorization form. Provides that if an
insurer or health maintenance organization fails to accept the prior authorization form,
or fails to respond within two business days after receiving the form, the request is
considered to have been granted.
1/14/2014 - Authored By Charlie Brown
HB1362 SPORTS WAGERING (MORRISON A) Authorizes a permit holder, a licensed riverboat
owner, or an operating agent to conduct sports wagering in sports books located on
the premises of the satellite facility, racino, or riverboat operated by the permit holder,
licensed riverboat owner, or operating agent. Specifies the duties and powers
associated with sports wagering. Provides that sports wagering receipts are taxed with
the other receipts of a riverboat or racino. Provides that sports wagering receipts are
not included in the determination of a racino's mandatory support for the horse racing
industry or in the determination of a racino's county slot machine wagering fee.
Imposes ...
1/14/2014 - Authored By Alan Morrison
HB1363 PROPERTY TAX DEDUCTIONS FOR LAND SALE CONTRACTS (PRYOR
C) Specifies the terms that a contract for the purchase of real property or a mobile
home or manufactured home that is not assessed as real property must include to
qualify the buyer for certain property tax deductions. Defines a contract containing the
required terms as a qualified installment contract. Provides that a person who: (1)
owns property subject to taxation; (2) misrepresents a residential lease as a qualified
installment contract; and (3) through the person's misrepresentation, causes another
individual to improperly claim a deduction that is made available to a buyer under a
qualified installment contract; is liable for any ...
1/14/2014 - Authored By Cherrish Pryor
HB1364 VOTER REGISTRATION (PRYOR C) Provides that if an individual receives a voter
registration application: (1) as part of a voter registration drive conducted by an
organization that is the individual's employer; (2) from an applicant who is an
employee, retired employee, or customer of the organization; and (3) as part of the
individual's paid employment duties; the individual may provide the address of the
individual's employer instead of the individual's residence address on the voter
registration application.
HB1365 TAX INCREMENT FINANCING (PRYOR C) Provides that tax increment replacement
revenues may not be obtained by: (1) reducing the base assessed value of property in
the tax increment area; or (2) in Marion County, funding the tax increment
replacement with personal property tax revenues. Provides that if bonds are payable
from tax increment financing revenues, the bonds may not be refinanced for a term
that exceeds the lesser of: (1) the remaining time until the expiration of the tax
increment financing area; or (2) 10 years; unless each taxing unit that is located in the
tax increment financing area approves the extension by resolution. Provides ...
HB1366 RURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AREA INCENTIVES (HEUER K) Permits the office of
community and rural affairs (office) to designate an applicant rural county as a rural
entrepreneurship area development incentives area (READI area). Provides for the
distribution of adjusted gross income taxes annually paid by employees working in an
area for a new business or annually paid by additional employees in an existing
business and by the new business itself to the rural county for the development of
new business opportunities in the rural county, including transfers to local or regional
venture capital funds. Limits the amount that may be distributed to a particular county
in a state ...
1/14/2014 - Authored By Kathleen Heuer
HB1367 ENERGY SAVINGS CONTRACTS (TRUITT R) Modifies per campus limits on the
amount of outstanding bonds that a state educational institution may issue for
qualified energy savings contracts. Removes the separate limit on the amount of
outstanding bonds that Ivy Tech Community College may issue for qualified energy
savings contracts. Provides that the amount of outstanding bonds for a state
educational institution is limited to the greater of $15,000,000 or 5% of the total
replacement value of all structures located on each campus of the state educational
institution.
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Authored By Randy Truitt
Recent Status:
HB1369 GARNISHMENT OF STATE TAX REFUNDS (COX C) Provides that if a debt has
been reduced to a judgment in Indiana and the judgment has not been satisfied, set
aside, or discharged in bankruptcy, the judgment creditor may garnish a state tax
refund otherwise due to the debtor. Specifies the procedures that the judgment
creditor must follow in obtaining the garnishment from the department of state
revenue.
HB1370 ELIMINATES OBSOLETE PROVISIONS (BAIRD J) Removes obsolete provisions
from the Indiana Code. Removes provisions that required one-time studies that have
already been conducted. Eliminates a provision applying only to organizations of
veterans of the Spanish American War. Strikes language that prohibited certain rules
from requiring the reporting of certain information before January 1, 2004.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Referred to House Select Committee on
Government Reduction
1/14/2014 - Authored By James Baird
HB1373 PUBLIC ACCESS TO INDOT LAND ACQUISITION RECORDS (PIERCE M) Makes
appraisal and relocation documents prepared by the land acquisition division of the
department of transportation public records after negotiations are terminated or
property is acquired. Provides a procedure for keeping trade secrets and private
financial information confidential.
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Authored By Matt Pierce
Recent Status:
HB1374 FEED-IN TARIFF FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY FACILITIES (PIERCE M) Requires
the utility regulatory commission (IURC) to adopt rules to establish an electric utility
feed-in tariff (FIT) program. Provides that the rules adopted must do the following: (1)
Require all jurisdictional electric utilities (utilities) to offer a FIT to eligible customers
(including persons that are not existing customers of the electric utility) not later than
July 1, 2015. (2) Require utilities, upon the request of an eligible customer, to enter
into a contract, for a term of at least 20 years, for the purchase of electricity
generated by a renewable energy facility (facility) located in Indiana at a site at ...
1/14/2014 - Authored By Matt Pierce
HB1375 ELECTION OF COUNTY FISCAL BODY BY DISTRICTS (MAHAN K) Provides that a
county executive may adopt an ordinance during an odd-numbered year to establish
single-member districts for the county fiscal body that take effect for the second
general election after the year in which the districts are drawn.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Authored By Kevin Mahan
Recent Status:
HB1376 SCHOOL COUNSELORS AND STUDENT SERVICES (ERRINGTON S) Adds a school
counselor to the definition of "teacher". Adds a definition of "student services
personnel". Requires student services personnel to hold appropriate credentials that
accurately reflect the individual's job title, duties, and responsibilities. Requires a
school corporation to provide certain career, educational, and student assistance
services to students.
1/15/2014 - Authored By Sue Errington
HB1379 ENTERPRISE ZONES (GIAQUINTA P) Provides a credit against state sales and use
tax liability for certain purchases made: (1) by or on behalf of a taxpayer that owns
real property in an enterprise zone; (2) from a person whose place of business is
within an enterprise zone or a city in which an enterprise zone is located; and (3) for
the purpose of the redevelopment or rehabilitation of a business or residence in an
enterprise zone. Provides retail merchants located in an enterprise zone with an
additional allowance equal to 1% of the retail merchant's sales tax liability. Provides
that an individual is entitled ...
HB1380 VARIOUS TAX AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES (TURNER P) Provides, for
purposes of the property tax circuit breaker credit, that a commercial hotel, motel, inn,
tourist camp, or tourist cabin is not residential property. Requires the distressed unit
appeal board to approve and the state board of finance to make rainy day fund loans
to certain distressed school corporations. Repeals the following income tax credits: (1)
Prison investment credit. (2) Riverboat building credit. (3) Blended biodiesel credit. (4)
Ethanol production credit. Allows the industrial recovery tax credit to be allocated
among the members of a pass through entity. Updates references to the Internal
Revenue Code. Provides a credit against ...
1/15/2014 - Authored By P Turner
HB1383 DEDUCTION FOR FITNESS FACILITY EXPENDITURES (SPEEDY M) Provides a
deduction from adjusted gross income to an individual for expenditures made to a
fitness facility on behalf of the individual, the individual's spouse, and the individual's
dependent children.
1/15/2014 - Authored By Mike Speedy
HB1386 SALE OF GROWLERS BY PACKAGE LIQUOR STORES (GIAQUINTA P) Creates a
supplemental package liquor store permit (supplemental permit) that the alcohol and
tobacco commission may issue to a person who holds a beer dealer permit and is the
proprietor of a package liquor store. Allows the holder of a supplemental permit to: (1)
fill or refill containers by transferring beer from a brewery-sealed keg to the container;
and (2) sell the beer to consumers for consumption off the licensed premises. Provides
that a container filled or refilled by the supplemental permit holder may: (1) have a
liquid capacity of not more than 64 ounces; and (2) be provided by ...
HB1390 SMALL BUSINESS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND CROWDFUNDING (DAVISSON
S) Codifies the office of small business and entrepreneurship (office) established by
Executive Order 13-17. Exempts crowdfunding that meets requirements of law from
other state securities laws.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Referred to House Financial Institutions
1/15/2014 - Authored By Steven Davisson
HB1393 LAND APPLICATION OF INDUSTRIAL WASTE PRODUCTS (MORRIS R) Requires
the department of environmental management (department) and the environmental
rules board to allow a person to use industrial waste products in a land application
operation or as ingredients in a soil amendment or soil substitute under certain
circumstances. Requires the department to allow the use of industrial waste products
in a land application operation or as ingredients in a soil amendment or soil substitute
on the same basis as other materials under the rules concerning land application and
marketing and distribution permits. Prohibits the department from: (1) discriminating
against the use of industrial waste products on the basis that ...
1/15/2014 - Authored By Robert Morris
HB1396 LOCAL TAXES (MORRIS R) Provides that if the book value of a taxpayer's business
personal property that would otherwise be subject to assessment and taxation is less
than $50,000 for a particular assessment date: (1) the taxpayer is not required to file
a personal property return for that assessment date; and (2) the taxpayer's business
personal property is exempt from taxation and is not subject to assessment. Provides
that the business personal property of a new business is exempt from property
taxation for the first three assessment dates that occur after the date on which the
new business begins doing business in Indiana. Provides ...
1/15/2014 - Authored By Robert Morris
HB1398 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS (PORTER G) Provides that eligible taxpayers may
submit exemption applications before September 1, 2014, for property tax exemptions
for eligible properties with respect to the 2011 assessment date, the 2012 assessment
date, or both the 2011and 2012 assessment dates. Provides that an eligible taxpayer
is entitled to a property tax exemption if the county assessor finds that the parcel
would have qualified for an exemption if an exemption application had been filed in a
timely manner. Provides that an eligible taxpayer is entitled to a refund for any back
taxes, penalties, and interest paid with respect to the eligible property or for ...
1/15/2014 - Authored By Gregory Porter
HB1399 COMMITMENTS CONCERNING USE OF REAL PROPERTY (SOLIDAY E) Provides
that a commitment that is part of a rezoning proposal being considered by the
legislative body, may be: (1) made to the legislative body; and (2) modified or
terminated by the legislative body. Provides that the decision of the legislative body in
adopting, modifying, or terminating the commitment is subject to judicial review.
1/15/2014 - Authored By Edmond Soliday
HB1405 CIRCUIT BREAKER CAGIT AND LOIT OPTIONS (WESCO T) Authorizes an
additional tax rate under the county adjusted gross income tax (CAGIT) or the county
option income tax (LOIT) to offset up to 75% of circuit breaker losses sustained by
the political subdivisions in a county for five years. Provides that the tax rate may not
exceed 1%. Provides that the additional rate may not be imposed at the same time
that an additional rate is imposed to freeze the property tax levy or for property tax
relief. Provides that an additional tax rate may be extended for an additional five year
period or reimposed following the expiration of ...
1/15/2014 - Authored By Timothy Wesco
HB1406 APPLICATION OF FEDERAL AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (HARMAN T) Prohibits state
action related to enforcement or implementation of the federal Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Requires the attorney general to file a civil action for
injunctive relief in certain circumstances. Requires a tax deduction for taxpayers
paying a penalty in relation to PPACA. Repeals a provision concerning application for a
state innovation waiver under PPACA.
1/15/2014 - Authored By Timothy Harman
HB1408 PROPERTY TAX SALES (REARDON M) Provides that costs directly attributable to the
sale of a property tax certificate of sale include all costs of all county offices and not
only the costs of the county executive.
1/15/2014 - Authored By Mara Reardon
HB1411 REPEAL OF STATE INCOME TAX ON INDIVIDUALS (REARDON M) Provides that
the state adjusted gross income tax does not apply to individuals for taxable years
beginning after December 31, 2015. Repeals an obsolete tax deduction. Requires the
code revision commission to prepare conforming legislation for introduction in 2015.
1/15/2014 - Authored By Mara Reardon
HB1416 ASSESSMENT APPEALS (LUCAS J) Provides that if a taxpayer appeals an
assessment of property classified as commercial or industrial and the assessed value
of the property exceeds $1,000,000, each affected taxing unit must receive notice of
the appeal and the resulting determination.
1/15/2014 - Authored By Jim Lucas
HB1419 REPEAL OF COMMON CONSTRUCTION WAGE STATUTE (LEONARD D) Repeals
the common construction wage statute. Repeals related statutes superseded by the
repeal of the common construction wage statute. Makes conforming amendments.
Pensions
1/15/2014 - Authored By Daniel Leonard
HB1422 INCOME TAX EXEMPTION FOR MILITARY PAY (AUSTIN T) Exempts military pay
earned by members of an active component of the armed forces of the United States
from the individual income tax. (Current law exempts from the individual income tax
military pay earned by members of the national guard and reserve components of the
armed forces of the United States while serving on active duty.) Repeals the provision
that defines qualified military income for purposes of calculating an individual's
adjusted gross income. Adds additional means of proof that a veteran has acquired
Indiana residency for purposes of resident tuition at state educational institutions.
1/15/2014 - Authored By Terri Austin
HJR3
MARRIAGE (TURNER P) Provides that only marriage between one man and one
woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Indiana. Provides that a legal
status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals
shall not be valid or recognized. This proposed amendment has been agreed to by one
general assembly.
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - House Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Time & Location: 10:00 AM, House Chamber
1/9/2014 - Authored By Turner, P. Eric
State Bill Page: HJR3
SB1
STATE AND LOCAL TAXATION (HERSHMAN B) Provides that if the assessed value
of a taxpayer's business personal property in a county that would otherwise be subject
to taxation is less than $25,000 for a particular assessment date: (1) the taxpayer is
not required to file a personal property return for the taxpayer's business personal
property in the county for that assessment date; and (2) the taxpayer's business
personal property in the county is exempt from taxation for that assessment date.
Requires the taxpayer to file an informational return with the county assessor.
Provides that the tax rate for certain tax increment financing areas shall be calculated
...
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy
1/13/2014 - Authored By Brandt Hershman
State Bill Page: SB1
SB2
SALES TAX EXEMPTION FOR U.S. AND INDIANA FLAGS (STEELE B) Provides a
state sales tax exemption for sales of the flag of the United States or the flag of the
state of Indiana.
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Committee Report, 1st House adopted
Recent Status: 1/13/2014 - Senate Commerce, Economic Development &
Technology, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location:
10:00 AM, Rm. 130
1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Commerce, Economic
Development & Technology Commerce, Economic Development
& Technology
SB5
SALE OF MICROBREWERY BEER AT FARMERS' MARKETS (ALTING R) Allows a
small brewer to sell the brewer's beer to consumers for carryout at a farmers' market
that is operated on a nonprofit basis, in a quantity of not more than 576 ounces per
consumer at any one time. Requires the beer sold to be placed in the bottle or
container at the brewer's permit premises.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Public Policy
1/7/2014 - Authored By Alting, Ron
SB12
PROTECTIVE ORDERS AND EMPLOYMENT (RANDOLPH L) Provides that: (1) an
individual is not subject to disqualification from eligibility for unemployment benefits
because of discharge from the individual's employment due to circumstances directly
related to the individual's filing of a petition for a protective order; and (2) an
employer may not terminate an employee or discriminate against an employee with
respect to compensation, benefits, or terms and conditions of employment based on
the filing by the employee of a petition for a protective order, whether or not the order
has been issued.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Judiciary
1/7/2014 - Authored By Randolph, Lonnie
SB15
SMALL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE TEAM (RANDOLPH L) Establishes the small
business assistance team (team), and designates the membership of the team.
Specifies the duties of the team. Provides that, upon request by the team, state
agencies and other state entities shall designate an employee to: (1) assist the team
in carrying out the team's duties; and (2) act as a liaison between the team and the
agency or entity. Specifies that the team may not refuse to provide assistance or
information to an individual or entity because of an individual's income or other
compensation, credit history, credit score, employment history, or criminal history.
Requires the team to meet at least twice each year and submit an annual report to the
legislative council.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Commerce, Economic
& Technology
SB16
MICROBREWERIES AND ARTISAN DISTILLERIES (BANKS J) Requires that, for a
brewery to qualify as a microbrewery, the entire brewing process of the beer must
occur in Indiana. Allows a small brewer to sell the brewer's beer to consumers for
carryout at a farmers' market that is operated on a nonprofit basis, in a quantity of not
more than 576 ounces per consumer at any one time. Allows a microbrewery, with the
approval of the alcohol and tobacco commission, to participate in a trade show or an
exposition for not more than 45 days in a calendar year. Allows the holder of an
artisan distiller's permit that also holds a microbrewery permit to hold a retailer permit
for a restaurant. Makes an exception to a provision that prohibits the holder of an
artisan distiller's, a distiller's, or a rectifier's permit to own, acquire, possess, or cause
to be transferred to the holder shares of stock of a corporation that holds an Indiana
permit to sell alcoholic beverages at retail, or in a permit to sell at retail in Indiana, or
to own or acquire an interest in the business being conducted under the permit, or in
or to shares of stock in a corporation that owns a permit to sell at retail.
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to the house
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to House
1/14/2014 - Third reading passed Senate (Y: 42, N: 6)
SB20
PROPRIETARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (BANKS J) Provides that a
postsecondary proprietary educational institution that: (1) is domiciled and has its
principal offices and the majority of its operations in Indiana; (2) provides an
organized two year or longer program of collegiate level classes that are directly
creditable toward a baccalaureate degree; and (3) is authorized to conduct business
by the board for proprietary education and is accredited or conditionally accredited by
a regional accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of
Education; is an approved postsecondary educational institution for purposes of higher
education awards. Makes corresponding changes to related sections.
Recent Status: 1/15/2014 - Senate Education and Career Development, (Bill
Senate Chamber
1/8/2014 - Senate Education and Career Development, (First
Hearing); Time & Location:
SB25
INCOME TAX EXEMPTION FOR MILITARY INCOME (ALTING R) Provides a 100%
income tax deduction for all military service income received by an individual or the
individual's surviving spouse. Removes the minimum age requirement for an individual
to deduct income received as retirement or survivor's benefits for military service.
1/7/2014 - Authored By Alting, Ron
SB32
PUBLIC OFFICIAL BONDING (TOMES J) Provides that if an incoming elective
officer is not permitted to take office because the incoming officer is unable to give an
official bond, the incumbent officer is entitled to hold over as provided in the
Constitution of the State of Indiana. Provides that if the incumbent officer refuses to
hold over or otherwise vacates the office, the vacancy shall be filled as provided by
law. Provides that if the incoming officer is able to give the official bond not later than
30 days after the beginning of the term of office to which the incoming officer was
elected, the incoming officer is entitled to take office upon giving the official bond.
SB34
SALES TAX EXEMPTION FOR DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS (WATERMAN J) Provides
a sales tax exemption for a dietary supplement if it is sold by: (1) a registered
pharmacist upon prescription of a licensed practitioner; or (2) the licensed practitioner.
1/7/2014 - Authored By Waterman, John
SB35
STRAIGHT TICKET VOTING (DELPH M) Removes a voter's option to vote for all
candidates of a political party or an independent ticket at one time (straight ticket
voting) in a general or municipal election, except for candidates for presidential
electors. Repeals superseded statutes relating to straight ticket voting.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Elections
1/7/2014 - Authored By Delph, Mike
SB38
TAX CREDIT FOR HIRING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS (RANDOLPH L) Provides a
nonrefundable tax credit to a small business for employing an individual who is
receiving unemployment benefits or returning from military service (qualified new
employee). Provides that the small business must employ a greater number of fulltime employees in Indiana in the taxable year than the small business employed in
Indiana, on average, in the small business's base employment period (generally
January 1, 2013, through June 30, 2013). Provides that the employee must be hired
full time. Provides that the credit applies only to taxable years beginning in 2014
through 2016. Provides that the credit is $3,000 per qualified new employee, not to
exceed $100,000 per small business. Provides that the small business may carry any
excess credit over to not more than three subsequent taxable years. Provides that the
small business forfeits 50% of the amount of the tax credits attributable to the
employment of a qualified new employee, if within 18 months after the qualified new
employee was initially hired: (1) the qualified new employee is terminated, laid off, or
otherwise reclassified to a position that is not a full-time employment position with the
small business; or (2) the position created for the qualified new employee is
eliminated.
SB39
MEDIA PRODUCTION EXPENDITURE TAX CREDIT (RANDOLPH L) Reestablishes
the media production expenditure tax credit (which expired in 2012), with certain
changes. Provides a refundable tax credit to taxpayers that make qualified production
expenditures in Indiana. Provides that the tax credit may be granted only if qualified
production expenditures are at least $50,000. Provides that in the case of a taxpayer
that claims the tax credit for qualified production expenditures of less than
$6,000,000, the amount of the credit equals a percentage of the taxpayer's qualified
production expenditures. Specifies that the percentage is: (1) 40%, in the case of
qualified production expenditures paid to an individual or entity located in an
economically distressed municipality or county; or (2) 35%, in the case of other
qualified production expenditures. Provides that in the case of a taxpayer that claims
the tax credit for qualified production expenditures of at least $6,000,000: (1) the
amount of the credit equals the taxpayer's qualified production expenditures multiplied
by a percentage (not more than 15%) determined by the Indiana economic
development corporation (IEDC); and (2) the taxpayer must, before incurring or
making the qualified production expenditures, apply to the IEDC for approval of the
tax credit. Provides that the maximum amount of media production expenditure tax
credits that may be allowed during a state fiscal year for all taxpayers is $2,500,000.
SB40
NONPARTY IMMUNITY (STEELE B) Prohibits a defendant from asserting a nonparty
defense, under which a defendant asserts that the damages of the claimant were
caused in full or in part by a nonparty, if an Indiana statute grants the nonparty
immunity from liability. Provides that the failure to assert a nonparty defense naming
as a nonparty a person granted statutory immunity does not constitute legal
malpractice.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Time & Location: 9:00 AM, Rm. 130
Recent Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Judiciary
SB41
PARTITION OF PROPERTY (STEELE B) Provides that property sold at auction in a
partition action shall be sold without relief from valuation or appraisement laws.
Permits any person with an interest in property being sold at a sheriff's sale in a
partition action to request that the court order the sale be conducted by an
auctioneer. Makes a technical correction.
1/7/2014 - Authored By Steele, Brent
SB42
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE OVERPAYMENTS (LANANE T) Requires the
department of workforce development to waive repayment of unemployment benefit
overpayments made because of an error by the department.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Pensions and Labor
1/7/2014 - Authored By Lanane, Tim
SB44
ELECTRONIC HEALTH DATA WORK GROUP (BREAUX J) Requires the state
department of health and the office of the secretary of family and social services to
establish a work group to study uniform access to electronic health data by health
providers. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the health finance
commission.)
Recent Status: 1/16/2014 - Third reading passed Senate (Y: 43, N: 0)
1/16/2014 - Senate Bills on Third Reading
SB51
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MATTERS (MILLER P) Requires, before September 1,
2014, the state department of health to: (1) adopt rules concerning the regulation of
facilities for treatment of traumatic brain injuries; and (2) make recommendations to
the legislative council and health finance commission concerning food handling law
changes. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the health finance
commission.)
1/14/2014 - Third reading passed Senate (Y: 49, N:0)
SB53
MUNICIPAL SEWER BILLS (ZAKAS J) Provides that for purposes of the statutes
governing municipal sewage works, the municipal legislative body may adopt an
ordinance to provide for one or more of the following with respect to property
occupied by someone other than the owner of the property: (1) That sewer fees for
the property are payable by the person occupying the property. (2) That sewer fees
for the property are payable by the person occupying the property only if the property
owner or the person occupying the property gives the municipal sewer utility written
notice that indicates, or the utility's records for the property otherwise indicate, that
the person occupying the property is responsible for paying the fees. (3) That sewer
fees for the property do not constitute a lien against the property, subject to certain
requirements or conditions that the municipal legislative body may set forth in the
ordinance. Makes conforming amendments to provisions setting forth the manner in
which municipal sewer liens attach and are enforced. Amends provisions requiring
notice of fee delinquencies to the property owner to specify: (1) the address to which
the notice must be sent; and (2) the municipal utility's obligation to provide the notice.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Utilities
1/7/2014 - Authored By Zakas, Joseph
SB56
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE PATIENT'S COMPENSATION FUND (PAUL A) Requires
claims for payment from the medical malpractice patient's compensation fund to be
computed and paid every three months instead of every six months.
Recent Status: 1/15/2014 - Senate Judiciary, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Time & Location: 9:00 AM, Rm. 130
1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Judiciary
SB61
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PROVIDER DISABILITY BENEFITS (BOOTS
P) Authorizes a municipal corporation to provide programs of disability insurance
(programs) to its emergency medical services providers who become disabled as the
result of an injury or illness: (1) that is not covered by worker's compensation or
occupational diseases compensation; or (2) for which worker's compensation or
occupational diseases compensation has been exhausted. Provides that the elimination
or waiting period before a benefit begins may not be greater than: (1) 30 days, for a
short term disability program; or (2) 120 days, for a long term disability program.
Allows a municipal corporation to provide the programs by purchasing policies of
group insurance or establishing a self-insurance program. Requires the fiscal body of a
municipal corporation to approve the establishment of a self-insurance program.
Allows the programs to exclude part-time employees and individuals who provide
services to the municipal corporation under a contract. (The introduced version of this
bill was prepared by the pension management oversight commission.)
SB66
STATE-ASSISTED RETIREMENT PLAN (WALKER G) Establishes a state-assisted
retirement plan (plan) for purposes of encouraging Indiana residents to increase their
rate of savings and to build assets for the use of a participant or the participant's
beneficiaries or survivors after the participant's retirement. Establishes the Indiana
retirement savings board (board) consisting of five members appointed by the
governor, the treasurer of state, and the director of the office of management and
budget. Provides that the board selects an administrator and oversees the plan.
Requires that the plan be qualified under Section 401(a) or another applicable section
of the Internal Revenue Code. Provides that an employer may participate in the plan
only if the employer does not offer its employees a pension or retirement system of
any kind. Provides that participation in the plan is voluntary for eligible employers and
employees, and permits self-employed individuals to participate in the plan. Provides
that the plan may not be construed as a debt, a liability, or an obligation of the state,
and that the state does not guarantee amounts deposited into an account or
investment returns earned by an account. Provides a one-time tax credit, not to
exceed $250, for payroll contributions to the plan made by a participant who has not
previously participated in a pension or retirement plan of any kind. (The introduced
version of this bill was prepared by the pension management oversight commission.)
Recent Status: 1/8/2014 - Senate Pensions and Labor, (First Hearing); Time &
Location:
1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Pensions and Labor
SB70
DEBT SERVICE FUNDS (MILLER P) Provides that for all taxing units, the maximum
amount allowed for an operating balance for a debt service fund is 10% of the budget
estimate for the annual debt service payments from the fund for debt incurred after
June 30, 2014, and 50% of the budget estimate for debt incurred before July 1, 2014.
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy, (Bill Scheduled for
Recent Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy
SB71
REGIONAL SEWER DISTRICTS (KRUSE D) Requires that the board of trustees
(board) of a regional sewer district (district) must be elected. Provides for the
transition from an appointed to an elected board. Provides that a district may not
foreclose a sewer lien or enforce the collection of unpaid sewer fees under certain
circumstances.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Environmental Affairs
1/7/2014 - Authored By Kruse, Dennis
SB98
CONTRACT CARRIERS TRANSPORTING RAILROAD EMPLOYEES (TOMES
J) Requires the motor carrier services division of the department of state revenue to
develop and publish an online log (log) pertaining to hours of service and consecutive
hours off duty of a driver (driver) of a contract carrier of railroad employees. Makes it
a Class C infraction for a driver to fail to complete the log, keep the log current, or
show the log to a railroad employee upon request.
Current Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Homeland Security,
Transportation, and Veterans Affairs
1/7/2014 - Authored By Tomes, Jim
SB101 AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS AND CRIMINAL TRESPASS (HOLDMAN
T) Expands the criminal trespass statute by making it a crime to knowingly or
intentionally enter the real property of another person without the person's consent.
Allows an agricultural operation to conspicuously post a notice at the agricultural
operation's locations that lists prohibited acts that may compromise the agricultural
operation's trade secrets or operations. Provides that a person who knowingly or
intentionally commits an act at an agricultural operation that is prohibited and listed
on such a notice commits a Level 6 felony. Expands criminal trespass to include
certain acts involving agricultural operations. Raises the penalty for criminal trespass if
certain levels of pecuniary loss result from the criminal trespass.
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Senate Corrections & Criminal Law, (Bill Scheduled
for Hearing); Time & Location: 9:30 AM, Rm. 130
1/7/2014 - Senate Corrections & Criminal Law, (First Hearing);
Time & Location:
SB104 DISSOLUTION OF POLITICAL SUBDIVISION (TALLIAN K) Specifies that a
county, city, town, or township does not have the power to dissolve another political
subdivision, except as expressly granted by statute.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Senate Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 1:30 PM, 130
Recent Status: 1/8/2014 - Referred to Senate Local Government
SB106 LOCAL GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY (CHARBONNEAU E) Requires the
department of local government finance (DLGF) to develop indicators of fiscal health
for school corporations and other political subdivisions. Requires the DLGF to present
information for evaluating the fiscal health of political subdivisions on the Indiana
transparency Internet web site through conveniently and easily accessed dashboards.
Allows political subdivisions showing signs of fiscal distress to request technical
assistance from the distressed unit appeals board (DUAB) beginning in 2015. Requires
the office of management and budget (OMB) to evaluate whether the DUAB requires
additional powers and resources to provide technical assistance. Allows the OMB to
recommend any legislation necessaryto provide those additional powers and resources
to the DUAB.
Current Status: 1/23/2014 - Senate Appropriations, (Bill Scheduled for
Recent Status: 1/8/2014 - Referred to Senate Appropriations
SB107 TRANSFER OF SEWAGE SYSTEM REGULATORY AUTHORITY (CHARBONNEAU
E) Transfers from the state department of health to the department of environmental
management (IDEM) the responsibility for regulating residential onsite sewage
systems and commercial onsite sewage systems. Provides for IDEM, rather than the
state department of health, to regulate sewage disposal systems of mobile home
communities that employ septic tank absorption fields. (IDEM already regulates mobile
home community sewage disposal systems that do not employ septic tank absorption
fields.)
Current Status: 1/16/2014 - Senate Bills on Second Reading
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - Committee Schedule, 1st House adopted
1/13/2014 - Senate Environmental Affairs, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:00 AM, Rm. Senate Chamber
SB109 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES AND COURT OF APPEALS JUDGES (BUCK
J) Requires justices of the supreme court and judges of the court of appeals to retire
at the age that judges of the circuit and superior courts are required to retire.
1/8/2014 - Authored By Buck, Jim
SB110 PROPERTY TAX LEVIES AFTER ANNEXATION (BUCK J) Provides that for purposes
of calculating a municipality's property tax levy limits for a particular ensuing calendar
year, the existing 15% cap on the amount of levy growth allowed because of an
annexation applies regardless of whether the increase in the municipality's assessed
value results from only one annexation or from more than one annexation.
SB111 SOIL PRODUCTIVITY FACTORS (LEISING J) Provides that the soil productivity
factors used for the March 1, 2011, assessment of agricultural land must be used for
the March 1, 2014, assessment date. Specifies that new soil productivity factors shall
be used for assessment dates occurring after March 1, 2014.
Recent Status: 1/16/2014 - Senate Appropriations, (Bill Scheduled for
1/8/2014 - Referred to Senate Appropriations
SB112 INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY TAX CREDITS (LEISING J) Authorizes a shareholder,
partner, or member of a pass through entity to claim the industrial recovery tax credit.
1/8/2014 - Authored By Leising, Jean
SB113 SCHOOL CURRICULUM (LEISING J) Requires each school corporation and
accredited nonpublic elementary school to include cursive writing in its curriculum.
Requires each school corporation and accredited nonpublic school to include reading in
its curriculum.
Current Status: 1/16/2014 - Committee Report, 1st House amend do pass,
adopted
Senate Chamber
1/8/2014 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
Development
SB114 EXCUSED ABSENCES FROM SCHOOL FOR STATE FAIR ACTIVITIES (LEISING
J) Provides that the governing body of a school corporation or the chief administrative
officer of a nonpublic school system shall authorize, for not more than three
instructional days in a school year, the absence and excuse of each school student
who participates in the state fair. Provides that an excused absence to participate in
the state fair may not be used in calculations to assess a school's improvement.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Senate Education and Career Development, (Bill
Senate Chamber
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location:
Development
SB115 DENTAL & OPTOMETRY SERVICE COVERAGE (LEISING J) Prohibits dental and
vision insurers and health maintenance organizations from requiring dentists and
optometrists to accept certain payments unless the health care services are covered
services. Prohibits dentists and optometrists from charging for noncovered services an
amount that exceeds the usual and customary charges for the services.
Current Status: 1/8/2014 - Referred to Senate Health and Provider Services
SB116 STATE HIGHWAY CLOSINGS (LEISING J) Requires the Indiana department of
transportation (department), before letting a contract for a proposed project that
would construct or improve a state highway and require the closure of the state
highway for at least five consecutive days, to provide notice of the proposed project to
governmental bodies serving the area affected by the proposed highway closure.
Authorizes a governmental body, within 30 days after being notified, to submit to the
department written objections to the proposed project. Requires the department, if it
receives written objections, to respond to the written objections at a regularly
scheduled meeting of a governmental bodyserving the area affected by the proposed
highway closure.
Current Status: 1/8/2014 - Referred to Senate Rules and Legislative Procedure
SB118 REDEVELOPMENT OF COMMISSIONS & AUTHORITIES (MILLER P) Provides that
a redevelopment commission may not enter into any obligation payable from public
funds without first obtaining the approval of the legislative or fiscal body of the unit
that established the commission. Provides an exception if the obligation is for the
acquisition of real property and the payments are for three years or less or the
purchase price is less than $5,000,000. Specifies that the approving ordinance or
resolution must include certain items. Provides that a redevelopment commission and
a department of redevelopment are subject to oversight by the legislative body of the
unit, including review by the legislativebody of annual budgets. Specifies that a
redevelopment commission and a department of redevelopment are subject to the
same laws, rules, and ordinances of a general nature that apply to all other
commissions or departments of the unit. Specifies that a redevelopment commission, a
department of redevelopment, and a redevelopment authority are subject to audit by
the state board of accounts and covered by the public meetings and public records
laws. Requires a redevelopment commission to provide to the legislative body of the
unit at a public meeting all the information supporting the action the redevelopment
commission proposes to take regarding the sale, transfer, or other disposition of
property. Provides that if the amount of excess assessed value determined by the
commission is expected to generate more than 200% of the amount of allocated tax
proceeds necessary to carry out the commission's plan, a determination of the amount
of the excess available to other taxing units by the commission must be approved by
the legislative body of the unit. Permits the legislative body of the unit to modify the
commission's determination with respect to the amount of excess assessed value.
Requires the treasurer of a redevelopment commission outside Indianapolis and the
secretary-treasurer of a redevelopment authority outside Indianapolis to report
quarterly to the fiscal officer of the unit that established the commission or authority.
Provides that the Indianapolis controller is the fiscal officer of the redevelopment
commission and redevelopment authority in Indianapolis. Authorizes the Indianapolis
controller to obtain financial services on a contractual basis.
1/8/2014 - Authored By Miller, Pete
SB135 ASSESSED VALUE CAP FOR VETERAN'S DEDUCTION (ECKERTY D) Increases the
assessed value cap (from $143,160 to $195,600) that applies to the property tax
deduction for a veteran who: (1) has a total disability; or (2) has at least a 10%
disability and is at least 62 years of age.
Current Status: 1/16/2014 - Second reading ordered engrossed
Recent Status: 1/16/2014 - Senate Bills on Second Reading
1/14/2014 - Committee Report, 1st House adopted
SB136 REDISTRICTING COMMISSION (LANANE T) Establishes a redistricting commission
(commission) to create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and
recommend plans to redraw general assembly districts and congressional districts.
Requires the legislative services agency to provide staff and administrative services to
the commission. Establishes standards to govern the commission and the legislative
services agency in the creation of redistricting plans. Requires the general assembly to
meet and to enact redistricting plans for general assembly districts before October 1 of
a redistricting year. Provides that the commission's plan for congressional districts
becomes the congressional district plan when adopted by the commission unless the
general assemblyenacts a different plan by law. Authorizes the general assembly to
convene in a session to act on redistricting bills at times other than the times the
general assembly is currently authorized to meet. Provides that the new redistricting
procedures apply to the establishment of legislative or congressional districts required
after June 30, 2014. Repeals the current law relating to congressional redistricting.
Makes an appropriation.
SB139 HEALTH MATTERS (BECKER V) Amends the definition of "attendant care services" to
include providing assistance for the taking of medications that include controlled
substances and prescription drugs. Removes the July 1, 2014, expiration date of the
anatomical gift promotion fund. Extends the office of minority health until July 1,
2018.
1/8/2014 - Authored By Becker, Vaneta
SB140 HOME RULE POWERS OF CERTAIN UNITS (DELPH M) Gives Indianapolis-Marion
County and second class cities (units) additional home rule powers. Provides that a
unit may reject statutory restrictions otherwise applicable to the unit and adopt
ordinances for governance instead of the rejected statutes. Provides that certain
statutes may not be rejected by a unit. Allows a unit to file for bankruptcy under
federal law.
SB141 APPLICABILITY OF FEDERAL LAW IN INDIANA (DELPH M) Provides that any
act, decree, injunction, law, opinion, order, rule, regulation, or statute of any branch
of the federal government found by the general assembly to be inconsistent with the
power granted to the federal government in the Constitution of the United States is
void in Indiana. Provides that a resident of Indiana has a cause of action to enjoin the
enforcement or implementation or the attempted enforcement or implementation of a
federal act, decree, injunction, law, opinion, order, rule, regulation, or statute declared
void by the general assembly. Provides that a plaintiff who prevails in such an action
isentitled to reasonable attorney's fees and costs. Removes a statement that the
common law of England and certain statutes of the British Parliament are governing
Indiana law. Provides that a person who knowingly or intentionally implements or
enforces, or attempts to implement or enforce, a federal law that is declared void by
the general assembly commits a Level 6 felony.
SB142 ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICAID (MILLER P) Designates the office of the
secretary of family and social services as the single state agency for the administration
of the Medicaid program and removes the designation from the office of Medicaid
policy and planning. Repeals provisions referring to the office of Medicaid policy and
planning as the single state agency for administering, developing, and coordinating
Medicaid.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Senate Health and Provider Services, (Bill
Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 9:00 AM, Rm. 431
Recent Status: 1/8/2014 - Referred to Senate Health and Provider Services
SB143 SCHOOL DEBT RESTRUCTURING (MILLER P) Specifies that a school corporation
may adopt a resolution before January 1, 2019, to use certain debt restructuring
statutes if the property tax circuit breaker credit impact for the school corporation is at
least 20% of its levies.
SB144 PROTECTED TAXES & SCHOOL CORPORATIONS (LANANE T) Specifies that a
school corporation may determine the allocation among its funds of property tax
reductions resulting from the granting of property tax circuit breaker credits.
SB156 REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONS (HEAD R) Provides that a redevelopment
commission may, subject to prior approval by the unit's fiscal body, provide financial
assistance to the owner of commercial property within a redevelopment project area
or economic development area designated by the redevelopment commission to assist
the owner in constructing, rehabilitating, or repairing the commercial property.
SB158 PROPERTY TAXES (KENLEY L) Provides a property tax exemption for a child care
provider that participates in the state early education evaluation program and meets
the standards of quality recognized by a Level 3 or Level 4 Paths to QUALITY program
rating or has a comparable rating from a nationally recognized accrediting body.
Provides that the interest paid on: (1) property tax refunds; (2) certain additional
property taxes that a taxpayer is required to pay after a final determination of an
appeal; and (3) certain amounts paid to local units by a county that is at least three
years behind in issuing property taxbills; is equal to the lesser of 6% or the state
interest rate for state tax refunds. (Under current law, the interest rate is equal to the
state interest rate for state tax refunds.)
SB159 CHARTER SCHOOLS (KENLEY L) Adds a definition of an "adult high school". Repeals
a provision that prohibits the establishment of new adult high schools. Provides that,
after June 30, 2014, before an authorizer may grant a charter to establish or renew a
charter for an adult high school, the organizer must have the proposal to establish the
charter school: (1) approved by the state board of education; and (2) reviewed by the
budget committee. Requires a charter for an adult high school to contain certain
requirements. Provides that, with certain exceptions, for state fiscal years beginning
after June 30, 2014, an adult high schoolis not entitled to receive funding from the
state unless the general assembly enacts an appropriation for the adult high school.
Senate Chamber
Development
SB161 STREAMLINED SALES TAX ISSUES (KENLEY L) Removes blood glucose monitoring
meters from the separate sales tax exemption for blood glucose monitoring supplies to
comply with the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. (Blood glucose meters
would be exempt from sales tax as durable medical equipment only if sold or rented
under a prescription.)
SB162 CURRICULAR MATERIALS AND SCHOOL VOUCHERS (KENLEY L) Requires a new
application form to be used to receive financial assistance for curricular material fees
or to receive a choice scholarship. Requires schools to submit the individual
applications to the department of education. Requires the department of education to
submit 10% of the applications each year to the department of state revenue for
income verification.
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SB163 PROPERTY TAX CIRCUIT BREAKER REPLACEMENT GRANT (HEAD
R) Establishes a grant program for qualifying school corporations to replace part of the
property tax revenue not received because of the property tax circuit breaker credit.
Specifies that to qualify for a grant, a school corporation's total property tax revenue
must be reduced by the lesser of 10% or $1,000,000 because of the application of the
circuit breaker credit. Specifies that the grant is equal to the credits on that part of the
school corporation's debt service fund levy that is used to pay debt service on debt
issued before January 1, 2009. Annually appropriates to the department of education
from the state general fund the amount necessary to make these grants.
SB165 INDIANA NEW MARKETS JOB ACT. (HEAD R) Provides for an Indiana new markets
tax credit against state taxes similar to the federal new markets tax credit. Excludes
from the definition of a qualified active low income community business a business
that is primarily engaged in providing home ownership services. Excludes from the
definition of a qualified active low income community business a business that is
primarily engaged in providing child care services, unless the business is a licensed
child care center, child care home, or child care ministry that has the highest rating
under the paths to QUALITY program. Requires a qualified community development
entity to pay the state a conditionally refundable performance fee of $500,000 and a
nonrefundable application fee of $5,000 for each qualified equity investment that the
qualified community development entity seeks to have approved by the Indiana
economic development corporation (IEDC). Provides that a denial of an application by
the IEDC does not create a private right of action for the applicant. Limits fees that
may be charged to a qualified active low income community business. Provides that an
equity investment must be made before January 1, 2016, to qualify for the new
markets tax credit. Provides that the IEDC may not certify more than $10,000,000 in
new markets tax credits per state fiscal year. Provides that the IEDC is required to
issue letter rulings requested by taxpayers, similar to private letter rulings issued by
the Internal Revenue Service at the federal level, regarding the Indiana new markets
tax credit. Requires an annual report to the budget committee by the IEDC on the
credit program.
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - Senate Commerce, Economic Development &
Technology, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location:
10:00 AM, Rm. 130
Recent Status: 1/8/2014 - Referred to Senate Commerce, Economic
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SB176 CENTRAL INDIANA TRANSIT. (MILLER P) Provides for the establishment or
expansion of public transportation services in an eligible county through local public
questions placed on the ballot under ordinances adopted by the fiscal body of the
eligible county. Provides that Delaware County, Hamilton County, Johnson County,
Madison County, and Marion County are eligible counties. Authorizes eligible counties
to fund approved public transportation projects through various parts of the local
option income tax rates that are available under current law for other purposes and by
imposing on C corporations a county income tax or a county employment tax.
Specifies that fares must cover 25% of the operating costs of a transportation system
established or expanded under the bill. Authorizes interlocal agreements, publicprivate partnerships, and bonding with respect to a public transportation project.
1/8/2014 - Authored By Miller, Patricia
SB178 RELEASE OF EMPLOYEE IDENTIFYING INFORMATION. (BANKS J) Provides that
an employer may not release a current or former employee's identifying information to
a third party, or enter into an agreement to release, communicate, or distribute
employee identifying information to a third party, unless: (1) the employee consents
to the release in writing that is signed by the employee; (2) the release is required by:
(A) state law; (B) a court order issued by a court with jurisdiction; (C) a warrant
issued by a judicial officer; (D) a subpoena issued in a civil or criminal action; or (E) a
discovery proceeding in a civil action; or (3) this provision conflicts with or is
preempted by federal law. Provides that a labor organization may not make a request
to an employer to release, or enter into an agreement that includes a provision
requiring the release of, employee identifying information. Provides that an employer,
labor organization, or other person who knowingly or intentionally violates these
provisions commits a Class C misdemeanor.
Current Status: 1/15/2014 - Senate Pensions and Labor, (Bill Scheduled for
Recent Status: 1/8/2014 - Referred to Senate Pensions and Labor
SB179 VARIOUS AGRICULTURAL MATTERS. (BANKS J) Allows poultry farms to slaughter
and process up to a certain number of poultry annually without inspection under
federal regulations. Provides that a local unit of government may not by ordinance or
resolution require licensure, certification, or inspection for food or food products of an
individual vendor, farmer, or bona fide egg producer who meets certain requirements.
Provides that a farmer or bona fide egg producer with an annual egg production from
a flock of 3,000 hens or fewer: (1) is not required to have a farmers market retail
permit to sell eggs at a farmers market; and (2) may sell eggs to a restaurant or
grocery store in Indiana if the eggs meet U.S. Consumer Grade B standards.
Current Status: 1/16/2014 - Second reading ammend, ordered engrossed
1/14/2014 - Committee Report, 1st House adopted
SB181 VEHICLE EXCISE TAX CREDIT FOR CERTAIN VETERANS. (GLICK S) Changes
the amount of the veteran's credit against the annual motor vehicle excise tax from
$70 per vehicle to 2% of the amount of the property tax deduction that the veteran
would qualify for if the veteran owned tangible property.
1/8/2014 - Authored By Glick, Susan
SB183 INVESTMENTS BY LOCAL UNITS WITH FOUNDATIONS. (YODER C) Allows a
unit of local government (unit) to invest money in the unit's local major moves
construction fund or the unit's rainy day fund with a charitable nonprofit community
foundation. (Current law allows the proceeds from the sale of a utility or facility or
from a grant, a gift, a donation, an endowment, a bequest, a trust, or riverboat
gaming revenue to be donated.) Allows such an investment by a unit to be held by a
charitable nonprofit community foundation as either a permanent endowed designated
fund or as a nonendowed designated fund. (Under current law, the charitable
nonprofit community foundation must hold the donation as a permanent endowment.)
Requires a unit to specify whether an investment shall be held by the charitable
nonprofit community foundation as a permanent endowed designated fund or as a
nonendowed designated fund. Provides that if a unit specifies that an investment must
be held as a nonendowed designated fund, the unit has access to the investment and
income at any time.
1/8/2014 - Authored By Yoder, Carlin
SB184 REGULATION OF ACCOUNTANCY. (YODER C) Provides that a firm permit is
required for an accounting practitioner working for a client. Provides that a member of
the Indiana board of accountancy may not serve more than three complete
consecutive terms. (Current law allows for only two consecutive terms.) Provides that
penalties are deposited into the accountant investigative fund, and increases from
$750,000 to $1,000,000 the amount of money that must be in the fund before it
reverts to the state general fund. Removes the word "knowingly" from the
requirements for civil penalties for violating the licensing law. Allows retired status for
certified public accountants, and specifies use of "retired" in the title or designation of
certified public accountant or the abbreviation CPA.
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SB185 INITIALS ON BALLOTS AT VOTE CENTERS. (YODER C) Permits a vote center
county that uses electronic poll books to print on the back of a ballot card,
immediately before the ballot card is delivered to the voter, the initials used by the
poll clerks to log into the system (instead of the poll clerks manually initialing the back
of each ballot card).
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - Senate Elections, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Time & Location: 12:00 PM, Rm. 233
SB186 STATE POLICY ON AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS' RIGHTS. (YODER C) State
policy on agriculture and farmers' rights. Declares the state policy on agriculture and
farmers' rights.
Current Status: 1/16/2014 - Second reading ordered engrossed
1/13/2014 - Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Bill
SB190 TEACHER BARGAINING AND VOTING. (YODER C) Provides that a district wide or
school wide committee that has teacher members who are members of the exclusive
representative and teacher members who are not members of the exclusive
representative may address subjects of bargaining. Provides that all members of a
bargaining unit are entitled to vote on a collective bargaining agreement, whether or
not the members of the bargaining unit are members of the exclusive representative.
Current Status: 1/8/2014 - Authored By Yoder, Carlin
Recent Status:
SB192 IMMUNITY FOR HEALTH CARE VOLUNTEERS (MILLER P) Provides that a licensed
health care worker who provides voluntary health care services in a setting other than
a medical clinic or health care facility is immune from civil liability. Provides that the
person is not immune from civil liability if the damages resulted from the person's
gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Current Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to Senate Civil Law
SB193 MEETINGS BY ELECTRONIC MAIL. (BREAUX J) Amends the definition of "meeting"
for purposes of the open door law to include a gathering that occurs by electronic
means, including by electronic mail. Provides that communications between members
of a governing body by electronic mail qualify as "gatherings" for purposes of the law
prohibiting a majority of the governing body from holding a series of gatherings for
the purpose of taking official action upon public business.
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - Referred to Senate Local Government
1/13/2014 - Authored By Jean Breaux
SB194 HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL CULTURAL TRAINING (BREAUX J) Requires an
individual seeking licensure in a health care profession to complete cultural
competency training.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Breaux, Jean
SB196 EXPIRATION OF EMERGENCY RULES (KRUSE D) Provides that an emergency rule
concerning categories or designations of school improvement adopted by the state
board of education expires on the earlier of December 19, 2014, or the effective date
of a rule that supersedes the emergency rule. (Current law provides that an
emergency rule expires on the earlier of November 15, 2014, or the effective date of a
rule that supersedes the emergency rule.)
Current Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to Senate Education and Career
Development
1/9/2014 - Authored By Kruze
SB197 HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING (KRUSE D) Requires the commission for higher
education to develop a base higher education funding formula in collaboration with
representatives from state university campuses, including main and regional
campuses. Requires a majority vote to approve a funding plan for the commission to
recommend to the governor and general assembly.
Development
1/9/2014 - Authored By Kruse, Dennis
SB198 REGIONAL DISTRICT TRUSTEES (SKINNER T) Provides that, with respect to a
regional water, sewage, or solid waste district in which a majority of ratepayers and
property owners are not individuals, only an individual who is registered to vote at an
address located in the district may be appointed as a trustee of the district.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Skinner, Timothy
SB199 PUBLIC PENSION MILITARY SERVICE CREDIT (SKINNER T) Grants, under
certain conditions, up to six years of service credit in the teachers' retirement fund for
a member's past active duty military service. Grants, under certain circumstances, up
to six years of service credit for active duty military service to a member of the 1977
police officers' and firefighters' pension and disability fund. Provides that, except for
World War II veterans, the service credit may be used only in the computation of
benefits to be paid after June 30, 2016. Provides that for World War II veterans the
service credit may be used only in the computation of benefits to be paid after June
30, 2014.
SB200 INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR HIRING RETURNING VETERANS (SKINNER
T) Provides a tax credit against state tax liability each taxable year to an employer
who hires an eligible returning veteran. Specifies that the amount of the credit is
$1,000 for each eligible returning veteran the employer hires who works 2,000 hours
during the taxable year. Prorates the employer's credit if the employee works less than
2,000 hours during the taxable year.
Current Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to Senate Appropriations
SB201 FEDERAL EMPLOYEE PENSION TAX DEDUCTION (SKINNER T) Provides a 100%
income tax deduction for federal civil service annuity income received by an individual
or the individual's surviving spouse. Eliminates the age requirement for deducting
federal civil service annuity income.
SB204 TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS (BANKS J) Requires teacher preparation
programs to report to the department of education (department) additional
information concerning the teacher candidates in the programs and instructors in the
programs. Requires the department to establish a minimum rating for teacher
preparation programs, and to prepare an improvement plan for programs that do not
achieve the minimum rating. Requires the department to decommission a teacher
preparation program that does not follow the improvement plan or fails to achieve the
minimum rating within a three year period.
Development
1/9/2014 - Authored By Banks, Jim
SB205 CHARTER SCHOOLS (BANKS J) Requires an authorizer to submit an annual report of
certain information to the state board and the public. Prohibits an authorizer from
requiring a charter school authorized by the authorizer to enter into a commercial
contract with the authorizer. Limits the length of a charter agreement to not more
than seven years. Requires municipal corporations and the Indiana department of
administration to notify the department of education of vacant or unused buildings
that are suitable for classroom use so that the buildings are included in an annual list
of buildings available for sale or lease by charter schools. Requires the state board to
establish a process to be used if more than one charter school applies to purchase or
lease the same vacant or unused public building.
Development
1/9/2014 - Authored By Banks, Jim
SB207 SCHOOL OPERATING REFERENDUM BALLOT LANGUAGE (WALKER G) Changes
the language to be used on the ballot when a school corporation conducts a school
general fund referendum.
1/13/2014 - Senate Elections, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing);
Time & Location: 12:00 PM, Rm. 233
SB211 NEW EMPLOYER TAX CREDIT (TAYLOR G) Reduces from ten to one the number of
qualified employees that a corporation or pass through entity must employ in order to
qualify for the new employer tax credit. Excludes an individual hired as a seasonal
worker from the definition of "qualified employee". Extends the new employer tax
credit through 2018.
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1/9/2014 - Authored By Taylor, Greg
SB212 EQSC STUDY OF STANDARDS FOR SEPTIC SYSTEMS (STOOPS M) Urges the
legislative council to assign to the environmental quality service council for study
during the 2014 legislative interim the topics of: (1) statewide standards for sewage
disposal systems, including septic tanks and related facilities and devices; and (2)
sewage disposal systems using alternative technologies that offer performance
superior to that of traditional sewage disposal systems.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Stoops, Mark
SB213 COUNTYWIDE PUBLIC TRANSIT (STOOPS M) Allows a county legislative body and
a public transportation corporation (corporation) to expand the corporation's taxing
district to include the entire county by adopting substantially identical ordinances.
Provides that the corporation's general fund property tax levy for the first year that
the taxing district includes the entire county may not be increased by more than 50%
of the corporation's general fund property tax levy for the previous year. Provides that
the county council must approve a proposed levy increase for the first year that the
taxing district includes the entire county.
SB214 USE OF CONSUMER REPORTS FOR EMPLOYMENT PURPOSES (STOOPS
M) Prohibits an employer from using a consumer report for employment purposes
unless certain conditions apply. Allows a consumer to bring a civil action against an
employer for a violation of this provision. Provides that if the attorney general has
reason to believe that an employer has violated the provision, the attorney general
may bring one or both of the following: (1) An action to enjoin the violation. (2) An
action to recover damages sustained by Indiana residents as a result of the violation.
Makes it: (1) a Class B infraction for a knowing or intentional violation of the provision;
or (2) a Class A infraction if an employer has a prior unrelated judgment for a violation
of the provision.
SB216 ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES. (CHARBONNEAU E) Makes it a Class C misdemeanor
for a person regulated under the air pollution control laws to knowingly violate certain
air pollution control rules or to knowingly fail to file certain documents or maintain
certain records required by the federal Clean Air Act. Makes it a Class C misdemeanor
for a person regulated under the water pollution control laws to willfully or recklessly
violate certain water pollution control rules or to negligently violate certain permit
conditions or permit filing requirements. Makes a technical correction.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Charbonneau, Ed
SB217 UNDERGROUND TANK FEE AND DRAINAGE ONSITE REVIEWS
(CHARBONNEAU E) Provides that if an underground storage tank consists of a single
tank in which there are separate compartments, a separate annual registration fee
shall be paid for each compartment within the single tank. Requires the owner of an
underground storage tank to pay an annual registration fee for a calendar year if the
underground storage tank is not closed before January 1 of that year. Requires the
department of environmental management (instead of the department of state
revenue) to collect the annual registration fee. Allows, instead of requires, a county
surveyor or drainage board planning to perform a regulated drain reconstruction or
maintenance project that meets certain conditions to request an onsite field review by
representatives of the department of natural resources and the department of
environmental management.
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - Senate Environmental Affairs, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 10:00 AM, Rm. Senate Chamber
Recent Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to Senate Environmental Affairs
SB218 ANNUAL REPORTING OF RECYCLING ACTIVITIES (CHARBONNEAU E) Requires
a person that recycles recyclable materials (including a recyclable materials broker and
the owner or operator of a composting facility, a waste tire processing operation, a
resource recovery facility, a waste-to-energy facility, or a solid waste disposal facility
at which recycling occurs) to submit annually to the commissioner of the department
of environmental management (commissioner) a completed recycling activity report
concerning the recycling activities or waste-to-energy activities conducted by the
person during the year. Requires the commissioner to post on the department's
Internet web site a uniform recycling activity report form to be used in making the
annual recycling activity reports. Requires the commissioner to submit to the
environmental quality service council an annual written report summarizing the
information obtained through the recycling activity reports submitted to the
commissioner.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Charbonneau, Ed
SB219 PHYSICIAN ORDER FOR SCOPE OF TREATMENT (HOLDMAN T) Requires an
individual's treating physician to evaluate an individual's mental capacity before a
physician order for scope of treatment (POST) form may be executed. Specifies that
the first POST form executed by an individual is effective for six months but may be
renewed with no expiration.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Holdman, Travis
SB224 EDUCATION STANDARDS (KENLEY L) Provides that before July 1, 2015, the state
board of education (state board) shall adopt Indiana college and career readiness
educational standards. Provides that before July 1, 2015, the state board shall
authorize the department of education (department), for school years beginning after
June 30, 2016, to administer either the ISTEP assessment or a comparable
assessment program that is aligned with the educational standards adopted by the
state board. Provides that before the state board may adopt educational standards or
authorize an assessment program, the state board shall submit the proposed
educational standards and assessment program to the budget committee for review.
Requires the state board to establish policies and procedures to ensure the
confidentiality of student information collected or retained by the department. Sets
forth who may access the student data. Requires an annual report to be submitted to
the governor and general assembly concerning the security of student data. Makes
technical corrections. Makes conforming amendments.
Development
1/9/2014 - Authored By Kenley, Howard "Luke"
SB225 VARIOUS STATE AND LOCAL FINANCIAL MATTERS (KENLEY L) Provides that if
the general assembly has not adopted a budget bill by the end of a budget biennium,
the amount of the appropriations or actual allotments (if less), as determined by the
budget director in consultation with the state budget committee, for certain specified
purposes in the most recent budget act is appropriated on a monthly basis beginning
in July. Permits, instead of requires, excess state general fund reserves less than
$50,000,000 to be carried forward to the next year. Reduces from 50 to 25 the
number of hard copy documents a state agency must provide to the state library.
Permits the state library foundation to choose to have its annual audit performed by
an independent certified public accountant or by the state board of accounts. Changes
the publisher of the annual report of the meetings of the Indiana Academy of Science
from the commission on public records to the Indiana Academy of Science. Changes
various copy requirements concerning the Indiana Academy of Science's reports.
Repeals the annual appropriation for the printing of the proceedings and papers of the
Indiana Academy of Science. Repeals the requirement that the state offer active and
retired employee health insurance coverage in the state plan for local government
units. Expands the projects that may be carried out using a public-private partnership
arrangement. Recognizes multiparty agreements, including agreements with other
states and local government units, using a transportation public-private arrangement.
Modifies hearing requirements related to public-private partnership arrangements.
Allows parties involved in a property tax appeal to agree to receive notices and other
material by electronic means. Provides that any excess in use tax collections pertaining
to remote sales is to be transferred from the state general fund to the major moves
construction fund. Provides that the excess is not to be counted in determining
whether an automatic taxpayer refund is to be made. Increases the membership of
the ports of Indiana commission from seven to 10 members and requires six members
to constitute a quorum and to take official action.
SB228 COERCED ABORTIONS (TOMES J) Urges the legislative council to assign to a study
committee during the 2014 legislative interim the topics of whether: (1) it should be
illegal to coerce a woman to have an abortion; (2) an abortion clinic or physician's
office that provides abortions should be required to post signs concerning the illegality
of coercing a woman to have an abortion; and (3) a health care worker who is aware
that a woman is being coerced to have an abortion should be required to report the
coercion to law enforcement.
SB229 FIREARM BUYBACK PROGRAMS (TOMES J) Specifies that a law enforcement
agency having possession of a firearm may not destroy the firearm unless the serial
number of the firearm has been obliterated. Prohibits a local unit of government,
including a law enforcement agency, from conducting a firearm buyback program.
Establishes a procedure to permit certain individuals whose firearms have been
retained by a law enforcement agency to have the firearms sold at auction and the
proceeds, less the costs of sale, returned to the individual.
SB231 ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (DELPH M) Provides that the definition of
"electronic communication" includes metadata that relates to an electronic
communication. Requires that the search or seizure of an electronic communication
must be conducted under a warrant, even if the electronic communication is in the
custody of a third party, and makes it a Level 5 felony to search or seize an electronic
communication without a warrant. Prohibits the state, state agencies, political
subdivisions, and local units of government from: (1) assisting a federal agency that
collects an electronic communication without a warrant; and (2) using information that
relates to an electronic communication in an investigation or criminal prosecution if the
information was obtained from a federal agency that collected the electronic
communication without a warrant. Makes knowingly or intentionally: (1) assisting a
federal agency that collects electronic communications without a warrant; or (2) using
information obtained from a federal agency that collects electronic communications
without a warrant in a criminal investigation or prosecution; a Level 5 felony.
Current Status: 1/9/2014 - Referred to Senate Corrections & Criminal Law
Corrections & Criminal Law
SB233 PHARMACY TECHNICIANS (GROOMS R) Changes pharmacy technician certification
to licensure. Adds a high school graduation, high school equivalency certificate, or
state general educational development requirement for pharmacy technician licensure.
Specifies education and training requirements. Requires passage of a specified
certification examination beginning July 1, 2015. Specifies that individuals with
certificates who are in good standing will be considered to have licensure.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Grooms, Ron
SB240 AIRCRAFT REPAIR SALES TAX EXEMPTION (ZAKAS J) Extends the sales and use
tax exemption for aircraft repair and maintenance to all retail merchants. (Under
current law, the exemption applies only if the retail merchant possesses a valid repair
station certificate issued by the Federal Aviation Administration.)
1/9/2014 - Authored By Zakas, Joseph
SB242 MODEL RESPONSE PROTOCOLS FOR SCHOOLS (MILLER P) Requires the secured
school safety board to establish standardized communication and response protocols
to enable schools and first responders to communicate clearly and respond quickly to
emergency situations
SB244 HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL REGISTRY (MILLER P) Requires the professional
licensing agency to create and maintain a health care professional registry for health
care professionals who meet certain qualifications.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Miller, Patricia
SB249 PROPERTY TAX SALES (BUCK J) Provides that when a property tax deed is issued
to a purchaser of a certificate of sale of the property sold by a county, the county
auditor shall remove from the tax duplicate any penalty associated with a delinquency
that was not due until after the sale but is due before the issuance of the property tax
deed.
1/14/2014 - Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy, (Bill Scheduled for
SB250 ANNEXATION (BUCK J) Provides that if a court finds that an annexation
remonstrance petition is sufficient, the court shall order the annexation not to take
place. Provides that the only issue addressed in a remonstrance hearing is the
sufficiency of the annexation remonstrance petition.
SB258 COUNTY INCOME TAX COUNCIL. (SMITH J) Replaces the county income tax
council with the county council, or city-county council in the case of Marion County, for
purposes of the county option income tax, the county motor vehicle excise surtax, and
the county wheel tax.
1/13/2014 - Authored By James Smith
SB259 LOCAL FUNDS. (SMITH J) Specifies that money in certain county funds may be paid
from those funds only upon appropriation by the county fiscal body. (Current law
governing those funds allows money to be paid or distributed from the funds without
appropriation.) Provides that money in the county supplemental juvenile probation
services fund must be appropriated by the county fiscal body only for use by the
courts in providing probation services to juveniles and to pay part or all of the salaries
of juvenile probation officers. (Under current law, money in the fund may be
appropriated only for supplementing those services and for supplementing ...
SB260 EXPENDITURES IN SUPPORT OF FEDERAL FACILITIES. (HERSHMAN
B) Authorizes units of local government to expend money in support of a federal
facility located in Indiana, including support for the promotion of the federal facility,
the growth of the federal facility, and activities at the federal facility. Provides that
redevelopment commissions, military base reuse authorities, and military base
development authorities may, subject to prior approval by the unit's fiscal body,
expend money and provide financial assistance (including grants and loans) in support
of a federal facility located in Indiana.
Recent Status: 1/15/2014 - Senate Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for
1/13/2014 - Referred to Senate Local Government
SB262 BIOSIMILAR DRUGS. (HERSHMAN B) Allows a pharmacist to substitute an
interchangeable biosimilar product for a prescribed biological product if certain
conditions are met. Requires the board of pharmacy to maintain an Internet web site
that lists the biosimilar biological products that are determined to be interchangeable.
Allows the board of pharmacy to adopt rules. Provides that a written or electronic
prescription for a biological product must comply with the existing prescription form
requirements. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the health finance
commission.)
SB264 CHOICES FOR TEACHERS PROGRAM. (BANKS J) Provides that a public school
teacher who applies to work and is subsequently employed in a public school or
charter school that meets certain criteria is entitled to a stipend of $10,000 annually
for the first two years the teacher is employed in the school. Makes an appropriation
to the office of management and budget to cover the costs of providing the stipends.
Provides that the office of management and budget may cap the amount of funds
distributed during a state fiscal year at $2,500,000.
Development
1/13/2014 - Authored By James Banks
SB266 ASSESSMENT OF REAL PROPERTY. (SCHNEIDER S) Provides a limit on the amount
by which the assessed value of real property may be increased for the four
assessment dates after the assessed value of the real property is determined in a
property tax appeal, in the case of appeals initiated after the effective date of the
statute. In the case of a property tax appeal that is pending on the effective date of
the statute and that was filed within the preceding four years, the assessed value for
the assessment date in question and for each of the following three assessment dates
may not be increased by ...
SB267 INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT COSTS. (MERRITT J) Provides that a public
utility that provides water or wastewater service may petition the utility regulatory
commission for an adjustment of its basic rates and charges to allow for recovery of
eligible infrastructure improvement costs. (Current law provides that only a public
utility that provides water service may apply for a distribution system improvement
charge.) Requires a public utility to annually reconcile the difference between its utility
rate improvement adjustment revenues and infrastructure improvement costs. Repeals
definitions related to distribution system improvement charges. Makes conforming
amendments.
1/13/2014 - Authored By James Merritt
SB269 USE TAX NEXUS AND COLLECTION. (BRODEN J) Adds to the definition of a retail
merchant engaged in business in Indiana to include arrangements with any person,
other than a common carrier, to facilitate the retail merchant's delivery of property to
customers in Indiana. Specifies that a person may be required to collect and remit
sales or use taxes if the person conducts activities in Indiana on behalf of a retail
merchant that are significantly associated with the retail merchant's ability to establish
and maintain a market in Indiana. Provides for certain presumptions with regard to
what constitutes a retail merchant engaged in business in Indiana. Permits the ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By John Broden
SB271 WATER RESOURCES STUDY COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES. (CHARBONNEAU
E) Urges the legislative council to assign certain responsibilities to the water resources
study committee for the 2014 legislative interim, including the responsibility to receive
testimony about: (1) recommendations made by the utility regulatory commission in
its most recent annual report to the legislative council; (2) the effect that the relative
availability of water resources has upon state and regional economic development
decisions; (3) ways in which state government agencies could better coordinate their
activities relating to the management of water resources; and (4) key elements that a
state water plan should contain.
Current Status: 1/24/2014 - Senate Environmental Affairs, (Bill Scheduled for
Recent Status: 1/13/2014 - Referred to Senate Environmental Affairs
SB273 APPROVAL OF ANNEXATION AGREEMENTS (BUCK J) Establishes requirements
for an agreement executed and recorded after June 30, 2014, between a municipality
and owners of real property, if all or part of the consideration for the agreement is
that the owners agree to the annexation of their property or agree not to remonstrate
or withdraw a remonstrance against an annexation by the municipality. Provides that
the agreement must be signed by: (1) the owners of real property who are parties to
the agreement; or (2) a representative appointed from among the owners of real
property who are parties to the agreement. Requires that the date the signature was
made must be written next to the signature. Requires that the agreement must be
recorded with the county recorder of the county where the municipality is located after
the agreement is executed and if a remonstrance has been filed, after the agreement
has been approved by the court.
Recent Status: 1/15/2014 - Senate Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for
1/13/2014 - Referred to Senate Local Government
SB275 MANDATORY FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN. (ROGERS E) Beginning with the 20142015 school year, requires a student to enroll in a full-day kindergarten program if the
student is at least five years of age on August 1. Provides that a kindergarten pupil is
counted as one pupil (rather than 1/2 pupil) for purposes of ADM and school funding.
Development
1/13/2014 - Author Added/Dropped Sen. Earline Rogers added
SB282 CHOICE SCHOLARSHIP. (ECKERTY D) Provides that a choice scholarship student
identified as eligible for special education services may receive special education
funding as part of the choice scholarship if the choice scholarship school offers the
necessary special education services and the student elects to receive those services
at the choice scholarship school.
Development
1/13/2014 - Authored By Douglas Eckerty
SB283 ASSESSED VALUE CAP FOR VETERAN'S DEDUCTION. (ECKERTY D) Increases
the assessed value cap (from $143,160 to $195,600) that applies to the property tax
deduction for a veteran who: (1) has a total disability; or (2) has at least a 10%
disability and is at least 62 years of age.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Douglas Eckerty
SB284 TEACHER CONTRACTS. (GROOMS R) Changes the date, from August 15 to July 15,
after which a contract entered into between a school corporation and a teacher is void
if at the time of signing the contract the teacher is bound by a previous contract,
unless the teacher provides a 30 day written notice to the first employer or the first
employer releases the teacher from the previous contract.
Development
1/13/2014 - Authored By Ronald Grooms
SB288 LOBBYING EXPENSES OF POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS. (SMITH J) Provides that a
lobbyist may not engage in lobbying that is paid for, in whole or in part, from money
derived from the revenues of a political subdivision. Provides that a political
subdivision may not pay any money received by the political subdivision for lobbying.
Provides that this prohibition does not apply to lobbying activities engaged in by a
public employee of a political subdivision or a public official of a political subdivision for
that political subdivision.
SB289 ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. (SMITH J) Provides that the elected
members of the governing body of certain school corporations are elected on a
partisan basis, beginning after December 31, 2014. Makes conforming changes to
related sections. Makes a technical correction.
SB290 MEDICAL DEBT COLLECTION PROCEDURES. (TALLIAN K) Defines "medical
collection case" and prohibits the collection of prejudgment interest in a medical
collection case. Permits the defendant in a medical collection case filed in small claims
court to remove the case to a circuit or superior court. Makes the statute of limitations
in a medical collection case two years. (Under current law, the statute of limitations is
six years.) Permits a person named as a defendant in multiple medical collection cases
in the same county to consolidate them into one case. Provides that separate medical
collection cases may be consolidated in a small claims court if each separate ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Karen Tallian
SB292 ABORTION PROVIDERS (WATERMAN J) Requires the state department of health to
inspect an abortion clinic at least one time per year. Voids part of an administrative
rule that exempts abortion clinics operating before July 1, 2006, from the rule
governing the physical plant specifications for abortion clinics. Removes a provision
allowing a physician to perform an abortion if the physician has entered into an
agreement with a physician who has admitting privileges in the county where the
abortion is performed or a contiguous county.
1/8/2014 - Authored By John Waterman
SB293 PRESERVING HERITAGE BARNS (WATERMAN J) Permits a person to receive a
100% deduction against the assessed value of certain heritage barns. Provides a state
income tax deduction for preserving a heritage barn.
1/8/2014 - Authored By John Waterman
SB294 WORKER'S COMPENSATION (BOOTS P) Changes the worker's compensation and
occupational diseases compensation law by providing that: (1) a medical service
provider may not be reimbursed for more than one office visit for each repackaged
legend drug prescribed; (2) the maximum period during which a medical service
provider that is not a retail or mail order pharmacy may receive reimbursement for a
repackaged legend drug begins on the date of the injury or disablement and ends at
the beginning of the eighth day after the date of the injury or disablement; (3) the
pecuniary liability of an employer or an employer's insurance carrier for a ...
1/8/2014 - Authored By Philip Boots
SB298 SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FEE (STOOPS M) Increases the fee on the disposal or
incineration of solid waste in a final disposal facility in Indiana: (1) from 50 cents per
ton to $1 per ton, in the case of solid waste delivered to the final disposal facility by a
motor vehicle having a registered gross vehicle weight greater than 9,000 pounds;
and (2) from 50 cents per load to $1 per load, in the case of solid waste delivered to
the final disposal facility by a lighter motor vehicle.
1/8/2014 - Authored By Mark Stoops
SB300 VETERANS' EMPLOYMENT PREFERENCE (YOUNG R) Provides for eligible armed
forces veterans who are being examined for full-time employment with a political
subdivision of the state of Indiana to receive preference points.
Current Status: 1/21/2014 - Senate Homeland Security, Transportation, and
Veterans Affairs, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time &
Location: 9:30 AM, Rm. 130
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to Senate Homeland Security,
SB301 REGULATION OF KNIVES BY POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS (NUGENT J) Prohibits
political subdivisions from: (1) regulating the possession, carrying, transportation,
sale, purchase, transfer, licensing, registration, or use of a knife or the components
used to make a knife; and (2) adopting an ordinance, a rule, or a policy concerning
the manufacturing of knives that is more restrictive than an ordinance, a rule, or a
policy concerning the manufacturing of any other commercial goods. Voids any
provision of an ordinance, a rule, a policy, or any other regulation of a political
subdivision: (1) that pertains to or affects the regulation of knives; and (2) that is
enacted, adopted, or undertaken before, ...
1/9/2014 - Authored By Johnny Nugent
SB302 NUCLEAR ENERGY PROJECTS (MERRITT J) Provides that projects involving the
construction of nuclear energy production or generating facilities qualify for the
financial incentives available for clean energy projects. (Current law provides that only
projects involving the life cycle management of such facilities qualify for the
incentives.) For purposes of the statute governing the incentives, amends the
definition of: (1) "nuclear energy production or generating facility" to include a facility
constructed in Indiana after June 30, 2014; and (2) "qualified utility system expenses"
to specify that the term includes preconstruction costs and applies to a new energy
production or generating facility or a new nuclear energy ...
SB303 PIPELINE SAFETY (MERRITT J) Makes the following changes to the Indiana statute
governing pipeline safety to reflect similar provisions in federal law: (1) Increases the
amount of the civil penalty for a violation of the statute from $25,000 per violation per
day that the violation persists to $200,000 per violation per day that the violation
persists. (2) Increases the maximum civil penalty from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 for
any related series of violations.
SB307 TAX CREDITS FOR LOGISTICS INVESTMENTS (WYSS T) Provides that the
Indiana department of transportation (rather than the Indiana economic development
corporation): (1) is responsible for approving tax credits for qualified logistics
investments under the Hoosier business investment tax credit; and (2) is the entity
that enters into agreements with taxpayers who wish to claim tax credits for qualified
logistics investments under the Hoosier business investment tax credit.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Thomas Wyss
SB315 MINIMUM WAGE (MRVAN F) After June 30, 2014, increases the state minimum
wage from $7.25 to $8.50. After June 30, 2015, increases the state minimum wage
from $8.50 to $10.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Frank Mrvan
SB318 ENFORCEMENT OF WAGE REQUIREMENTS (MRVAN F) Increases the penalties
imposed on an employer whose violation of the state common construction wage law
or minimum wage law involves an employee who is an illegal alien. Provides that a
determination by a federal immigration agency that an alien has come to, entered, or
remained in the United States in violation of law creates a rebuttable presumption that
the alien is in the United States in violation of law.
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to Corrections & Criminal Law
SB321 CHARTER SCHOOL FUNDING (SCHNEIDER S) Provides for charter school tuition
support funding to be at the organizer level instead of the individual charter school
level. Requires identification numbers and accounts to be used at the organizer and
charter school levels. Prohibits a charter school organizer from using tuition support
for expenses incurred outside Indiana. Applies various duties, rights, and prohibited
acts to charter school organizers. Specifies, for a new charter school located outside
Marion County, that a weighted average foundation amount based on the legal
settlement of each student attending the charter school is to be used instead of the
foundation amount where the charter ...
Development
1/9/2014 - Authored By Scott Schneider
SB322 SCHOOLS RECEIVING CHOICE SCHOLARSHIPS (SCHNEIDER S) Provides that an
eligible school may be accredited by the state board of education or a national or
regional accreditation agency that meets the standards adopted by the state board of
education. Provides that an eligible school may administer the ISTEP test or a
nationally norm-referenced test approved by the state board of education. Provides
that the department of education may not require an eligible school to report any
information that is not necessary to administer the choice scholarship program, and
requires the department of education to reduce undue reporting burdens on eligible
schools.
Development
1/9/2014 - Authored By Scott Schneider
SB327 MINIMUM WAGE (TALLIAN K) Increases the state minimum wage from $7.25 to
$10 and the state tipped employee minimum wage from $2.13 to $3.
SB328 MINORITY STUDENT TEACHING STIPEND (ARNOLD J) Provides that a minority
student who participates in a school administration internship as part of the student's
graduate degree program is eligible to receive a stipend from the student teaching
stipend for minorities.
Development
1/9/2014 - Authored By James Arnold
SB330 BETTER SKILLS FOR ADULT LEARNERS (BOOTS P) Requires the commission for
higher education to award part-time student grants totaling at least 50% of the
available appropriation each fiscal year to students who are identified by the
commission as financially independent from their parents and who are pursuing a
program of study that will lead to a specific high demand, high wage job. Provides
that, for state fiscal years beginning after June 30, 2014, the state workforce
innovation council shall allocate a percentage of the funds made available to Indiana
under the Workforce Investment Act for adult and dislocated worker training for
performance based funding training that leads ...
SB332 STATE AND LOCAL INVESTMENTS (HOLDMAN T) Provides that investments in
municipal securities must have a stated final maturity of five years or less. Permits the
treasurer of state to invest with supranational issuers. (Current law limits the
investment to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Redevelopment and the
African Development Bank.) Provides that a public depository may invest funds in the
same investments and for the same terms as the treasurer of state may invest funds
of the state.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Travis Holdman
SB333 UNDERGROUND UTILITY PLANT PROTECTION (CRIDER M) Amends the statute
concerning the location and protection of underground utility facilities (facilities)
during excavation or demolition activities to change a reference to "hydroexcavators"
to "hydraulic excavators" to more accurately describe equipment used by excavators.
Requires, with respect to an excavation or demolition in an unincorporated area, the
excavator to submit a separate locate request and notice of the excavation or
demolition (notice) to the Indiana Underground Plant Protection Service (association)
for at least every 2,640 linear feet (versus every 2,500 linear feet under current law)
of proposed excavation or demolition. Provides that a notice expires 20 days after the
...
1/9/2014 - Authored By Michael Crider
SB337 TEACHING INNOVATIONS AND CLASSROOM EXPENSES (MILLER P) Requires
the office of management and budget to develop a teacher innovation grant program
that provides grants to teachers for the development of innovative ideas that are
designed to improve student outcomes and that are scalable and replicable within a
school or across a school corporation. Provides a $4,000,000 state general fund
appropriation to the teacher innovation fund to provide grants. Establishes a
classroom expense program and fund to provide an annual advance to educators to
pay for items that qualify for the federal income tax deduction for educator expenses.
1/9/2014 - Authored By Pete Miller
SB338 STATE BOARD OF ACCOUNTS (HERSHMAN B) Establishes an audit committee in
the legislative department of state government to assure the independence of the
examination process of the state board of accounts. Requires that the appointment of
and any removal of the state examiner and a deputy state examiner of the state board
of accounts must be approved by the audit committee. Eliminates the requirement
that a state examiner and each deputy examiner have three consecutive years of
active experience as a field examiner with the state board of accounts. Replaces the
requirement that the deputy state examiners be of different political parties with a
requirement that ...
SB340 DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS (MERRITT J) Provides that a demand
side management (DSM) program of an energy utility may not require participation by
an industrial consumer of the energy utility. Requires the utility regulatory commission
to modify a program that requires participation in a DSM program by industrial
consumers.
Current Status: 1/16/2014 - Senate Utilities, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time
& Location: 9:15 AM, Rm. 233
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to Senate Utilities
SB345 BOARD OF DENTISTRY (GROOMS R) Allows the state board of dentistry to: (1)
require a dentist to submit information concerning the dentist's working relationship
with a person that impacts the dentist's practice of dentistry; and (2) set standards of
practice concerning that relationship. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared
by the health finance commission.)
SB346 MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT AND MEDICAID (GROOMS R) Allows for
pharmacist reimbursement for medication therapy management services provided to
certain Medicaid recipients beginning July 1, 2015. Sets forth requirements that a
pharmacist must meet in order to receive Medicaid reimbursement for medication
therapy management services. Requires the secretary of the office of family and social
services (secretary) to establish a medication therapy management advisory
committee. Requires the secretary to determine any Medicaid cost savings and
improvement in patient quality of care by providing these services and report the
secretary's findings to the general assembly not later than June 30, 2017.
SB347 PERSONAL PROPERTY TAXES AND STATE TAX CREDITS (BUCK J) Provides that
business personal property acquired after June 30, 2014, is exempt from property
assessment and taxation. Provides a state income tax credit for property taxes paid on
business personal property. Specifies that the credit percentage is 10% for taxable
years beginning in 2015, and that the credit percentage increases for a year in an
increment of 10% if state general fund revenue collections grew during the preceding
state fiscal year.
1/9/2014 - Authored By James Buck
SB353 INTERIM STUDY COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITIES (PAUL A) Establishes the
interim study committee on communities to review and study during the 2014
legislative interim certain issues relating to the economic vitality of communities.
Current Status: 1/22/2014 - Senate Local Government, (Bill Scheduled for
Hearing); Time & Location: 1:30 PM, Rm. 130
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to Senate Local Government
SB357 INDUSTRIAL HEMP (YOUNG R) Subject to federal approval, authorizes the
department of agriculture to license the cultivation and production of industrial hemp.
Establishes requirements to obtain a license. Authorizes inspections by the state police
and audits by the department. Provides that in addition to any other liability or
penalty, the department may revoke or refuse to renew a license and may impose a
civil penalty. Requires the department to apply for necessary permissions, waivers, or
other form of legal status by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency or other
appropriate federal agency that is necessary to implement the law. Makes a
conforming amendment to ...
Current Status: 1/24/2014 - Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Bill
Recent Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to Senate Agriculture and Natural
Resources
SB358 MUNICIPAL UTILITY CONTRACTS (CHARBONNEAU E) Provides that where: (1) a
municipal utility is providing service to properties located outside the municipality
under contracts requiring the owners of the properties to make payments in lieu of
annexation; and (2) the contracts expire; the municipal utility may not terminate utility
service to the properties and, as a condition of continuing to receive the municipal
utility service, the owners of the properties must continue paying for the utility service
at the rate specified in the expired contracts, for one year or until the municipal utility
and the owners of the properties enter into new contracts or the area ...
1/9/2014 - Authored By Ed Charbonneau
SB363 COMPLEXITY INDEX CALCULATION (MISHLER R) Complexity index calculation.
Provides that the following apply in the case of a school corporation that does not
request reimbursement from the state for providing free curricular materials to
students: (1) The complexity index used in determining state funding is based on the
percentage of the school corporation's students who were eligible to receive free
curricular materials. (Under current law, the complexity index is based on the number
of students receiving such assistance.) (2) The school corporation shall estimate and
report to the department of education the percentage of the school corporation's
students who are enrolled in the school corporation and are eligible for such
assistance. Authorizes the state board of education to adopt emergency rules to
implement this provision.
SB364 GAMING MATTERS (BOOTS P) Authorizes a riverboat to extend its gambling
operations to a riverboat corridor. Requires that a riverboat corridor must be in
compliance with all applicable building codes and any safety requirements imposed by
the gaming commission. Prohibits the gaming commission from imposing a fee for the
privilege of extending gambling operations to the riverboat corridor. Authorizes table
games at racinos. Repeals an obsolete definition. Repeals the riverboat admissions tax
and replaces it with an annual community development fee that is equal to the
admissions taxes remitted in state fiscal year 2014. Makes conforming changes.
SB365 SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY (MILLER P) Provides that a school is subject to certain
consequences after the first and second years in which the school remains in the
lowest accountability category or designation following the school's initial placement in
the lowest accountability category or designation. (Under current law, the
consequences are in effect after the third and fifth years in which a school remains in
the lowest accountability category or designation following the school's initial
placement in the lowest accountability category or designation.) Provides that a school
becomes a turnaround academy in the third year in which the school remains in the
lowest accountability category or ...
Development
SB367 PROPERTY TAX MATTERS (HERSHMAN B) Changes the schedule of maximum
property tax rates that may be imposed by an airport authority. Specifies that the
maximum tax rate decreases as the assessed value within an airport authority reaches
certain thresholds, but not to the extent required by current law. Specifies a maximum
tax rate calculation that provides that the tax rate is not decreased to a level where
the airport authority would initially lose tax revenue as the assessed value increases.
Provides that, for purposes of the statute specifying that costs paid from donations
and gifts are excluded when determining if a local capital project is ...
SB369 IMPLEMENTATION OF FEDERAL AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (TALLIAN K) Expands
Medicaid coverage for specified individuals. Requires the department of insurance to
create a state health benefit exchange in Indiana. Requires the legislative services
agency to prepare legislation for introduction in the 2015 legislative session to make
necessary changes to statutes affected by this act.
SB370 PAYMENT OF INSURANCE PREMIUMS UNDER MEDICAID (TALLIAN K) Requires
the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply for a Medicaid state
plan amendment or a demonstration waiver to allow the office of the secretary to
purchase for certain individuals coverage by a qualified health plan through the health
benefit exchange operated in Indiana.
SB371 FAIR PAY IN EMPLOYMENT (BREAUX J) Provides that: (1) it is an unlawful
employment practice to pay wages that are discriminating based on sex, race, or
national origin for the same or equivalent jobs; and (2) the civil rights commission has
jurisdiction for investigation and resolution of complaints of these employment actions.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Jean Breaux
SB372 MEDICAID MAILINGS (TAYLOR G) Requires certain information to be included on
the outside envelope of mailings sent to Medicaid recipients by the office of Medicaid
policy and planning or by a contractor of the office.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Greg Taylor
SB375 BUSINESS FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS (HOLDMAN T) Permits a venture capital
investment tax credit to be transferred to another taxpayer or pass through entity.
Specifies that the following are securities subject to IC 23: (1) A venture capital
investment tax credit. (2) A certificate from the Indiana economic development
corporation indicating that a taxpayer has fulfilled the requirements of the corporation
and is entitled to a venture capital investment tax credit. Defines "accredited investor"
for the purposes of the Uniform Securities Act. Adds exemptions to the Uniform
Securities Act for certain transactions.
Current Status: 1/14/2014 - Referred to Commerce, Economic Development &
Technology
1/13/2014 - Authored By Travis Holdman
SB376 IDEM POWERS AND PERMIT DECISION DEADLINES (GLICK S) Requires an
employee of the department of environmental management (IDEM) to successfully
complete an educational program offered by the Solid Waste Association of North
America concerning a certain subject if the duties of the employee relate to permits or
registrations involving that subject. Provides that IDEM has no powers other than
those explicitly granted by, and shall exercise its powers in strict compliance with,
statutory law and the rules of the environmental rules board. Prohibits IDEM, in
issuing and enforcing a permit, from imposing requirements or standards more
burdensome than the requirements and standards expressly provided for in statutory
law ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Susan Glick
SB377 VARIOUS BUSINESS ENTITY MATTERS (GLICK S) Makes various changes to
business and other associations law concerning the following: (1) Information required
to be filed with the secretary of state's office. (2) Information required to be set forth
in articles of incorporation. (3) Information required to be sent to registered agents.
(4) Responsibilities of registered agents. (5) An exception to the notice requirements
and procedures concerning administrative revocations of certificates of authorities and
dissolutions. (6) Procedures concerning reinstatement and denial of reinstatement. (7)
Stated powers of corporations, nonprofit corporations, and limited liability companies.
(8) Issuance of interrogatories by the secretary of state and investigative claims. (9)
Filing ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Susan Glick
SB379 SMALL EMPLOYER WELLNESS PROGRAM TAX CREDITS (GROOMS R) Extends
the income tax credit for small employers who provide a qualified wellness program
for their employees. Provides that the credit may be claimed for costs in 2012 through
2015. (Current law provides that costs incurred after 2011 are not eligible for the
credit.)
SB380 MALPRACTICE LIMITATIONS (WALTZ B) Raises the aggregate damages that may
be obtained for the death of an adult person from $300,000 to $1,250,000. Requires
the health finance commission to study during the 2014 legislative interim: (1)
whether additional training for health facility employees is needed and the funding
mechanism to provide the training; and (2) whether additional oversight and
regulation of health facilities are necessary for the safety of health facility residents.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Brent Waltz
SB381 SERVICE AREAS OF ELECTRIC UTILITIES (CRIDER M) Amends the statute
concerning electricity suppliers' service area assignments to provide new procedures
by which a municipally owned electric utility may petition the utility regulatory
commission (IURC) to change the municipally owned electric utility's assigned service
area to include all or part of an area annexed by the municipality. Provides that the
new procedures apply to petitions filed with the IURC after June 30, 2014. Requires
the IURC, after the filing of a petition, to: (1) hold a public hearing on the question of
whether the municipally owned electric utility's service area should be changed to
include all or part ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Michael Crider
SB383 INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR HOMESTEADS IN LAKE COUNTY (CHARBONNEAU
E) Changes the definition of income for purposes of the income tax credit for property
taxes paid on homesteads in Lake County from employee and self-employment earned
income to Indiana adjusted gross income.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Ed Charbonneau
SB385 VOTER REGISTRATION; ABSENTEE VOTING (MILLER P) Makes changes to
election law, including: (1) permits the election division to provide voter registration
information from the statewide voter registration system (system) without charge to
the clerks of the United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts
of Indiana; (2) amends online voter registration procedures; (3) provides that an
individual knowingly making a false statement about a voter identification number on
a poll list commits a Level 6 felony; (4) permits a county voter registration office
(office) to provide precinct inspectors a scanned copy of a more recent signature of a
voter than the signature on the ...
SB388 RIVERBOAT OPERATIONS IN GARY (ROGERS E) Authorizes the Gary based
riverboats to move inland within the city of Gary. Requires an inland casino to comply
with all applicable building codes and any safety requirements imposed by the gaming
commission. Provides that a licensed owner may not simultaneously conduct gaming
operations at an inland casino and a docked riverboat. Provides that a licensed owner
is not required to obtain the gaming commission's approval before relocating the
licensed owner's gaming operations under this law. Prohibits the gaming commission
from imposing a fee for the privilege of relocating a licensed owner's gaming
operations. Makes conforming changes and technical corrections.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Earline Rogers
SB389 PRESCHOOL EDUCATION (ROGERS E) Requires public schools, including charter
schools, to offer a preschool education program, or to contract with a provider to
provide a preschool education program, for children who are at least four years of age
but less than five years of age. Provides for minimum public preschool education
program requirements. Requires the department of education to establish additional
standards, requirements, and guidelines for a public preschool education program.
Requires that a private provider's program must meet the standards of quality
recognized by a Level 3 or Level 4 Paths to QUALITY program rating. Provides, for
purposes of the state tuition support ...
Development
1/13/2014 - Authored By Earline Rogers
SB391 STATEWIDE AND REGIONAL WATER RESOURCE PLANNING (YOUNG
R) Divides Indiana into nine hydrological regions, each of which contains certain
specified counties. Establishes for each hydrological region: (1) a regional water
management council consisting of the chairpersons of the drainage board and the soil
and water conservation district of each county in the hydrological region; and (2) a
regional water planning group consisting of the members of the regional water
management council and six other members selected by majority vote of the regional
water management council from individuals falling within certain interest categories.
Requires each regional water planning group, every five years, to adopt a regional
water resources plan ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Richard Young
SB392 REDISTRICTING (DELPH M) Establishes a redistricting commission (commission) to
create, hold hearings on, take public comment about, and recommend plans to redraw
general assembly districts and congressional districts. Requires the legislative services
agency (agency) to provide staff and administrative services to the commission.
Establishes standards to govern the commission and the agency in the creation of
redistricting plans. Provides that if the Constitution of the State of Indiana does not
require the general assembly to establish legislative districts, the commission's
recommendations for legislative plans define those districts. Provides that if the
Constitution of the State of Indiana requires the general assembly to establish ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Michael Delph
SB396 TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE (HERSHMAN B) Provides a nonrefundable
income tax credit for making investments in relocating telecommunication
infrastructure in conjunction with a transportation project. Provides that, to receive the
tax credit, a taxpayer must apply to and receive approval from the Indiana economic
development corporation. Requires that the infrastructure relocation must meet the
requirements of the Indiana department of transportation. Requires the taxpayer to
remain the telecommunications provider of last resort in the area where the
infrastructure relocation investment is made. Specifies that the credit is 50% of the
investment made. Allows any excess credit to be carried over to subsequent taxable
years. Removes provisions ...
Technology
SB399 SOLID WASTE COLLECTION FEES (STOOPS M) Requires the environmental rules
board to adopt rules requiring each county, city, or town that collects solid waste for
disposal to charge households for solid waste collection service on a "pay as you throw
basis" under which the fee is higher for a larger quantity of solid waste than for a
smaller quantity of solid waste. Provides that the fees may be set according to the
number of solid waste containers used by a household or the weight of the solid waste
collected from the household. Requires that the rules take effect on July 1, 2015.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Mark Stoops
SB401 TAX INCREMENT FINANCE (WALKER G) Specifies that a redevelopment
commission, a department of redevelopment, and a redevelopment authority are
subject to audit by the state board of accounts and covered by the public meeting,
public records, and public works laws. Prohibits a redevelopment commission,
authority, or department, or a designee holding company from owning, leasing, or
holding a single family dwelling or condominium unit. Provides that if a redevelopment
commission member or adviser or a redevelopment authority board member owns,
directly or indirectly, more than 10% of a business entity, the individual is considered
an owner of that business entity for purposes of determining whether ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Greg Walker
SB405 UNDERGROUND UTILITY FACILITIES (YODER C) Amends the statute concerning
the location and protection of underground utility facilities (facilities) during excavation
or demolition activities to provide that mechanized equipment may be used to perform
an excavation within two feet of either side of the outer limits of a facility if: (1) the
facility is located or contained in or under pavement; or (2) there is pavement on or
over the area extending up to two feet from the outer limits of the facility;
notwithstanding the prohibition in existing law on using mechanized equipment when
the clearance outside the outer limits of a facility is less than ...
1/13/2014 - Authored By Carlin Yoder
SB406 MEDICAID FALSE CLAIMS (MISHLER R) Makes certain procedural changes to the
false claims act and Medicaid false claims act to remove inconsistencies and comply
with federal law.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Ryan Mishler
SB409 RECORDING NOTICES CONCERNING TAXES AND PROPERTY (ZAKAS
J) Requires a county auditor to place a notation on the tax duplicate when the county
auditor determines that property is no longer eligible for a standard deduction and
indicates that a bona fide purchaser of the property is not liable for taxes and
penalties that accrue before the notation is made as a result of the removal of the
deduction. Indicates that certain defects in a lease recorded with the county recorder
do not invalidate the effect of recording the lease. Requires an enforcement authority
to record certain orders related to sealing, repairing, or rehabilitating an unsafe
building.
1/13/2014 - Authored By Joseph Zakas
SB411 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE ACCOUNTABILITY (MRVAN F) Adds
various job and employee definitions to the Indiana economic development
corporation (IEDC) laws. Requires that all records related to taxpayer funded
economic development incentives must be disclosed under the open records law.
Requires that the IEDC's annual job creation incentives and compliance report must be
published on the Indiana transparency portal Internet web site. Requires the IEDC and
the department of state revenue to compile information on all job creation incentives
granted, including the total amount of uncollected or diverted state tax revenues
resulting from each incentive, and requires that this information must be included as
part of the ...
Technology
SB412 IMPROPER WORKER CLASSIFICATION (MRVAN F) Authorizes the department of
state revenue, the department of labor, the worker's compensation board, and the
department of workforce development to issue subpoenas for the attendance of
witnesses and the production of records and to question witnesses under oath when
conducting an investigation of any suspected improper worker classification by a
construction contractor. Allows the worker's compensation board to issue a stop work
order as an additional remedy against an employer that does not have the required
insurance and has not furnished satisfactory proof of self-insurance. Provides that
service of a stop work order on a work site is effective ...
SB416 TEACHER UNION DUES (SMITH J) Repeals a provision allowing a school employer
to deduct union dues from a teacher's salary.
SB418 REDEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONS (SMITH J) Provides that a redevelopment
commission (commission) may not enter into any obligation payable from public funds
without first obtaining the approval of the fiscal body of the unit that established the
commission. Provides an exception if the obligation is for the acquisition of real
property and the payments are for three years or less or the purchase price is less
than $5,000,000. Specifies that the approving ordinance or resolution must include
certain items. Provides that a commission and a department of redevelopment are
subject to oversight by the fiscal body of the unit, including review by the fiscal body
of ...
SB419 STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ISSUES (MILLER P) Repeals the law concerning
the health care facility advisory council. Transfers certain duties of the council to the
state department of health. Changes the amount of time from four years after birth to
six months after birth that a birth certificate presented for filing is considered a
delayed certificate of birth. Raises the age that an autism spectrum disorder can be
diagnosed from five years of age to eight years of age for purposes of the birth
problems registry. Allows the spinal cord and brain injury fund to use money to
develop a statewide trauma system. Makes conforming changes.
SB420 PROPERTY TAX DEADLINES AND PROCEDURES (HEAD R) Changes for property
taxation purposes: (1) the assessment and valuation date for property to January 1;
(2) the personal property tax return filing date to May 1; (3) the date a reassessment
of a group of parcels in a particular class of real property begins to May 1; (4) the
date after which changes on an amended property tax roll over as a credit to a
subsequent year to April 1; (5) the exemption filing date to April 1; (6) the date
assessment records are transferred to the auditor to June 1; and (7) various other
related dates. Requires the ...
1/14/2014 - Authored By Randall Head
SB422 ABANDONED HOUSING (MERRITT J) Requires the attorney general to establish and
maintain a tax sale blight registry of all persons ineligible to participate in the tax sale.
Reduces the redemption period for certain properties sold at the tax sale to 180 days.
Provides that properties certified as vacant or abandoned may be sold outright at the
tax sale. Prohibits foreign business associations that have not registered with the
secretary of state from participating in the tax sale. Requires persons who purchase a
property or certificate at a tax sale to reimburse the county for the costs of a title
search. Permits a county to ...
SCR3
CENTRAL TIME ZONE (WALKER G) A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION petitioning the
United States Department of Transportation to hold hearings on the placement of the
entire state of Indiana in the Central Time Zone.
1/7/2014 - Authored By Walker, Greg
State Bill Page: SCR3
SJR2
GENERAL ASSEMBLY (DELPH M) Redistricting commission. Requires the general
assembly to establish a commission to draw congressional and legislative districts. This
proposed amendment has not been previously agreed to by a general assembly.
Recent Status: 1/7/2014 - Referred to Senate Elections
State Bill Page: SJR2
SJR9
RIGHT TO HUNT, FISH, AND HARVEST WILDLIFE (STEELE B) Provides that the
right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife is a valued part of Indiana's heritage and shall
be forever preserved for the public good. Provides that the people have a right, which
includes the right to use traditional methods, to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife,
subject only to the laws prescribed by the general assembly and rules prescribed by
virtue of the authority of the general assembly to: (1) promote wildlife conservation
and management; and (2) preserve the future of hunting and fishing. Provides that
hunting and fishing are the preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife.
Provides that this constitutional amendment does not limit the application of any laws
relating to trespass or property rights. This proposed amendment has not been agreed
to by the previous general assembly.
Current Status: 1/24/2014 - Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources, (Bill
Recent Status: 1/9/2014 - Authored By Steele, Brent
State Bill Page: SJR9
SR8
LABOR LAWS (BOOTS P) A SENATE RESOLUTION urging the Legislative Council to
assign to a study committee the topic of civil penalties assessed for violations of child
labor laws.
Current Status: 1/13/2014 - adopted voice vote
1/13/2014 - ADOPTED BY HOUSE
State Bill Page: SR8
Week In Review
Friday, January 17, 2014
Indiana House panel OKs adoption tax credit
Indiana lawmakers are lending early support to a bill that would create a tax credit for adoptive
parents.
House Committee Scales Back Bill That Relaxes Gun Control
A House committee Wednesday significantly scaled back legislation that would have lowered
the penalty for carrying a gun on school property
Gov. Mike Pence renews call for biz tax cut, pre-school vouchers
Gov. Mike Pence pushed lawmakers Tuesday night to settle the divisive debate over banning gay
marriage in the state's constitution this year and made it clear he wants Indiana's school standards
to be written "by Hoosiers, for Hoosiers."
Schools chief Ritz gets ovation at Pence speech
Embattled Indiana schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz has received a standing ovation during
Republican Gov. Mike Pence's second State of the State address.
House panel considers personal property tax cut
Gov. Mike Pence threw his support behind House Republicans' watered-down business tax
proposal Tuesday amid outcry from local leaders over the potential to damage their already cashstrapped budgets.
2 groups challenge Ind. coal-gasification permit
Two environmental groups are challenging Indiana’s extension of a construction permit for a
proposed $2.8 billion coal-gasification plant in southwestern Indiana.
Indiana lawmakers weigh push for state-grown food
A bill to promote Indiana-grown food is on the table for state lawmakers.
Lawmakers delay vote after gay marriage ban debate
After long and impassioned testimony, a legislative committee vote was delayed today on the
hotly debated amendment to add a same-sex marriage ban to the Indiana Constitution.
Environmentalists object to bill promoting farm rights
A state lawmaker framed his legislation as a simple declaration of Indiana’s support for
agriculture: A right to farm.
New battle looms over Ind. teaching requirements
Educators are again fighting watered-down requirements for Indiana teachers that were pushed
through by officials after opponent Glenda Ritz was elected superintendent of public instruction.
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